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A BRIEF SKETCH OF ITS HISTORY, 



BY 



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TO THE 
SCOTTSVILLE LITERARY SOCIETY 

whose inquiry into the early history of the village first awakened 

an interest in the subject, and was the incentive 

to further investigation, 

this volume 

is most respectfully dedicated 

by the Author. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Portrait of the Author, facing Title Page. 

Dedication, 3. 

Table of Contents, 5. 

Preface, '• 

Sketch of the Author, 9. 
Partial list of persons from whom information was obtained, 12. 

Introductory, ' ->■ 

Indian Allan, I 4. 
Portrait of Peter Sheffer, Jr., facing page 1 6. 

The Sheff ers, 1 6. 

Settlers prior to 1 800, 1 8. 

Settlers from 1 800 to 1 8 1 0, 21. 

Settlers from 1 8 1 to 1820, 22. 

Early Merchants, Physicians and Lawyers, 23. 

Flouring Mills, 24. 

Hotels, 27. 

River Navigation, 29. 

Ferries, 30. 

Bridges, ->^-- 

Highways, 33. 

Early Manufactories, 35. 

Early Mechanics, 36. 

Scottsville and Genesee River Canal, 38. 

The Genesee Valley Canal, 39. 

Railroads, 40. 

Scottsville's First Houses; the builders and their families, 43. 

Garbutt, 47. 

Mumford, 50. 

The Farmer's Library, 3 1 . 

Schools, 34. 

Churches, "2. 

Beulah, 69. 

PostOfEces, 71. 



Town Organization and Civil Changes, 73. 
Our Country's Defenders : 

War of the American Revolution, 76. 

War of 1812-1814, 77. 

The Patriot War, 1837-1838, 79. 

The Second Florida War, 1 835- 1 842, 80. 

The Mexican War, 1 846, 80. 

The Civil War, 1861-1865, 81. 

The War with Spain, 1898, 88. 

The Scottsville Literary Society, 89. 

Wheatland's Centennial Celebration, 92. 

The O-at-ka Woolen Mills, 97. 

Reminiscences of Francis X. Beckwith, 99. 

Notes on Mumford, by Miss Margaret Armstrong, I 04. 

Bear Stories, 1 09. 

Index to Subjects, 111. 

Index to Names, 123. 

Errata, 1 68. 
Map of Wheatland, facing last page. 



PREFACE. 



The greater part of this History of the Town of Wheatland 
was ready for printing before the death of the author, which 
occurred on November 1 3th, 1 906. His friends had often urged 
that the manuscript be sent to the printer, but he had delayed its 
publication for the reason that he considered it incomplete, espe- 
cially in regard to the history of Mumford, Beulah and the west 
end of the town in general. 

Since his death additions to some of the chapters have been 
made from the author's notes and from other authentic sources, 
and contributions to the early history of Mumford have been 
given by Miss Margaret Armstrong and Mr. Oliver Allen, Jr., 
while additional matter relating to Beulah has been prepared by 
Mrs. Eugene E. Harmon, to all of whom the thanks of the editors 
are due for their courteous assistance. 

While the matter presented in this volume does not give in 
every respect a full and detailed account of Wheatland and of 
Wheatland's people, yet it is believed to be accurate as far as it 
goes and sufficiently complete to warrant publication, if for no 
other purpose than to gratify the author's many friends, and to 
serve as a solid foundation for some later historian to build upon. 



SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR. 



George Engs Slocum, author of the following historical sketch, 
was a resident of Scottsville for more than fifty-seven years. He 
was of mingled English and Dutch ancestry. His father, Matthew 
B. Slocum, was an Albany merchant in 1817. Later the family 
moved to Delphi, Onondaga County, New York, where the father 
continued the business of storekeeper for many years, and where 
the subject of this sketch was born, June 20, 1 824. He was one 
of a family of eleven children. The necessary outlay for the 
support of so large a family left a small margin for their educa- 
tion. One of the boys, Henry W. Slocum, secured an appoint- 
ment to the Military Academy at West Point, and later illustrated 
the wisdom of the nation in maintaining a school for free military 
instruction, by four years devoted and brilliant service in his 
country's defense during the civil war. The other children were 
not so fortunate in the matter of education, and the boy who later 
developed a love of historical research and not a little skill in the 
writing of history, was compelled by force of circumstances to 
cut short his education, so far as education is dependent upon 
the training of the schools, at the age of twelve years. He was 
early put to work to learn the trade of tinsmith in the village of 
Homer, Cortland County, New York, and in his nineteenth year 
came to Rochester, New York, and secured employment at his 
trade. 

He lived in Rochester for six years. On December 27, 1848, 
he married, at Fabius, Onondaga County, Lydia A. Fort. The 
young couple immediately began housekeeping in Rochester, but 
in the spring of 1 849 they removed to Scottsville, coming by 
packet-boat on the Genesee Valley canal. Here were born to 
them four sons, Earl H., G. Fort, Le Roy M. and Mors O., and 
here they lived together, in mutual helpfulness, for upward of 
fifty-five years, until the death of Mrs. Slocum on April 22, 1904. 
To his wife's wise and frugal management of her household, and 



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to her untiring ministry to her husbands health and comfort, Mr. 

Slocum justly attributed a large measure of his own success. Mr. 

Slocum survived her about two and one half years, his death oc- 
curring on November 1 3, 1906, in the 83rd year of his age. 

Mr. Slocum early came to realize the importance of an educa- 
tion; like many another man whose opportunities for schooling in 
early life were meagre, he resolved to educate himself, and it is 
not too much to say that without the aid of schools, by steady 
purpose, close application, and extended study and reading, he 
made himself a well educated man. 

He was one of the founders of the Scottsville Literary Society; 
he was faithful in attendance upon its meetings, and a frequent 
participant in its proceedings. He never shirked, in the Literary 
Society or elsewhere. By diligent study, by careful preparation, 
and by regular participation in the discussions of the Society, he 
acquired a skill in the presentation of his views, which, added to 
a certain vein of quiet humor, an occasional quaintness of expres- 
sion, and a dignified, earnest but genial manner, made his 
addresses both entertaining and instructive. 

Mr. Slocum built up a substantial business as a tinsmith and 
dealer in stoves and hardware. He retired frem active business 
about 1890, and devoted the latter years of his life to the gather- 
ing and arranging of material for the present publication. 

Mr. Slocum's knowledge of local history was probably unsur- 
passed by that of any of his contemporaries. He gave the 
historical address at the centennial anniversary, in 1 889, of the 
settlement of the town of Wheatland, and in 1 899 read a paper 
on " Rochester in the Forties " before the Rochester Historical 
Society, of which he was for several years a member. He served 
the public as collector of tolls on the Genesee Valley canal, as 
town assessor and as justice of the peace. For many years he 
was clerk of the Scottsville School district. He was for a time a 
vestryman and clerk of the vestry of Grace Episcopal Church, 



and had also been trustee and treasurer of the Oatka Cemetery 
Association. 

In manner, Mr. Slocum was gentle, courteous and refined. His 
extreme modesty, both as to his own ability and as to the quality 
of his work, was a characteristic by which he will be longest and 
most affectionately remembered. 

He did his literary work, as he did all his work, with great 
care and deliberation, spending much time in revision. He was 
extremely methodical in his work, as indeed one must be to suc- 
ceed, even in a modest way, as a writer of history. 

His literary style speaks for itself in the following pages. An 
appreciative estimate of his merit as a writer is embodied in 
the memorial resolutions adopted by the Scottsville Literary 
Society. " Earnest, conscientious and painstaking in everything 
he did, his literary work had a finished quality and showed 
superior ability. His style was concise and clear, his language 
well chosen and graceful. " 

G. F. S. 



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A PARTIAL LIST OF PERSONS FROM WHOM MANY OF 

THE STATEMENTS RELATING TO WHEATLAND'S 

EARLY HISTORY, RECORDED IN THIS 

WORK, WERE OBTAINED. 



Mrs. Dr. Bristol. 

■ Moses Wells. 

" John M. Goodhue. 

" Paul Austin'. 

" Duncan Mc Vean. 

■ John Mc Vean. 
" George Ensign. 
" Wm. Garbutt. 

" Zachariah Cumber, 
" F. X. Beckwith. 
Dr. Freeman Edson. 



Mr. H. L. Hall. 
" George Sheffer. 
" Wm. D. Buck. 
" Benjamin Warren. 
" Shelby Reed. 
" F. X. Beckwith. 
■ Hugh Mc Vean. 
" William Welch. 
" Thomas Smith. 
" Daniel E. Rogers. 
Capt. John Ott, 



and from many others, yet living, who have kindly contrib- 
uted valuable information. 



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INTRODUCTORY. 

Prior to the war of the Revolution very little was known of 
Western New York. The aboriginal occupants of the soil had 
been visited by the Jesuit Missionaries of France and an occa- 
sional tourist had wended his solitary way to the Falls of Niagara, 
but to most of the residents of New England, and of the states 
bordering upon the Atlantic coast, this section of the country was 
veritably an unknown land. 

The expedition of General Sullivan in 1 779 to this vicinity, to 
punish the Seneca tribe of Indians for the hostility manifested 
by them during the war, viewed from a military standpoint, can- 
not be called a very brilliant success, yet incidentally it proved of 
great value to this section of the state. The productiveness of 
the soil, and the large quantities of corn and vegetables raised by 
the Indians, with the most primitive of implements, and with but 
indifferent cultivation, were a source of wonder and astonishment 
to Sullivan and to his command. Upon the return to their eastern 
homes they published accounts of the fertility of the soil, and the 
advantages the country possessed as a place of residence. 

After the treaty of peace between the Colonies and Great 
Britain, and after the enmity of the Indians had in a measure 
been placated, a tide of emigration flowed into Western New 
York from New England, New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. 
Many of Sullivan's soldiers, with their friends and neighbors, 
returned to this locality and founded for themselves and families 
a permanent home. 



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INDIAN ALLAN. 



The first white person who owned and occupied land in 
what is now Wheatland was Ebenezer Allan, or as he was more 
commonly designated " Indian Allan. " Allan was from New 
Jersey, and during the war of the Revolution, if not an active 
participant in the struggle, was evidently a sympathizer with the 
British cause. 

This fact may account for his withdrawing from civilized life 
and seeking the seclusion of the wilderness. It may also at a later 
period, have influenced him to follow the example of Butler and 
the Johnsons of the Mohawk Valley, to seek more congenial 
society across the Canadian border. Near the close of the war, 
probably in 1 78 1 or '82, Allan appeared upon the banks of the 
Genesee at Mt. Morris, and found employment upon the lands of 
Mary Jemison, the " White Woman of the Genesee. " He here 
formed his first matrimonial alliance with Sally, a native of the 
forest. In I 786 he came to Wheatland, and by a title obtained 
from the Senecas, took up his abode upon the flats between 
the present location of the village of Scottsville and the river, 
building a log cabin upon the rise of ground on the north bank 
of the Oatka, about one hundred rods from its confluence with 
the Genesee. 

Upon the arrival of the Sheffers in the fall of 1 789 they found 
this cabin occupied by Allan, his Indian wife Sally, two young 
half-breed daughters, Mary and Chloe, and a white woman, 
known as Lucy Chapman, whom Allan had induced to take a 
half interest in his marital affairs. His sister, the wife of Christo- 
pher Dugan, a lady of some culture and refinement, having avail- 
ed herself of the educational advantages of her New Jersey home 
was also temporarily, a member of his household. Allan was 

engaged in agriculture; in stock raising; and as Indian trader. 
He had a herd of cattle upon the flats, a market for which existed 
at Fort Niagara, a post still occupied at that time by the English 
garrison. 

1 he Sheffers were seeking a location for a home, and were 
pleased with an exhibit of the products of Allans farm, and par- 
ticularly with the fine condition of his live stock, while Allan had 
lived here about as long as his restless spirit would allow him to 



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remain in any one place. Under these circumstances a bargain 
was quickly consumated, and the property of Allan, real and 
personal, was transferred to Sheffer. During the winter of 1 789 
the two families, jointly, occupied the cabin, and in the spring of 
I 790 Allan, with his harem, removed to the Falls of the Genesee, 
where he erected the rude mills that have become famous in the 
annals of Rochester. 

At the time of Sheffer' s purchase Allan was described as being 
forty-five years of age, tall and erect, quick of movement and 
energetic in action, could appear courteous and affable, was at 
times loquacious and at others uncommunicative. His deportment 
toward his dependents was imperious, and when his passions 
were aroused, vindicative and cruel. Sheffer gave but little cre- 
dence to the many tales of atrocious crimes with which Allan's 
name was connected. He thought these reports arose in part 
from Allans boasting spirit, from his habit of relating, in the 
presence of strangers, startling adventures with the view of excit- 
ing terror in the minds of his listeners. As far as Sheffer was 
cognizant, Allans chief offence against society was his insane pas- 
sion for matrimony. His method of conducting his domestic 
relations was unusual. Instead of adopting the more discreet 
policy of disposing of No. 1 before installing No. 2, he had the 
temerity of domiciling beneath his roof three wives, of as many 
different races, at the same period of time. If the object of 
marriage be to secure a life of peace and felicity, then his experi- 
ment in this line must be recorded a failure. 

In the early part of the last century Allan removed to Canada 
West, and died there in 1814. 



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THE SHEFFERS. 



When the Sheffer family came to Wheatland in 1 789 it consisted 
of but three persons, Peter Sheffer, Senior, an aged father, long 
past the period alloted as the life of man, and two sons, Peter, Jr., 
aged twenty eight years, and Jacob, six years younger. 

In the spring of I 790 the family of Jacob Schoonover, which 
numbered among its members a daughter of I 8 years, settled upon 
the banks of Dugan Creek, three miles south of the village of 
Scottsville. 

Peter Sheffer, Jr., lost no time in making Miss Schoonover's 
acquaintance. His want of a housekeeper was great; his desire 
was made known, and his suit pressed with such earnestness that 
before the close of the year, with the legal assistance of Judge 
Chapin, of Canandaigua, Miss Elizabeth Schoonover became Mrs. 
Peter Sheffer, Jr., and was duly installed as mistress of the Allan 
cabin. This was the first marriage between white persons that 
occured west of the Genesee. The fruit of this union was a family 
of seven sons and four daughters. Nancy, their eldest, born 
January 20, 1 793, was the first white child born between the 
Genesee and Niagara Rivers. She married Philip Garbutt. Their 
other children were, Jacob, born April 1 1, 1795, who died un- 
married; Peter, born July 1 6, 1 798, married Amanda Bigford; 
Elisabeth, born December 20, 1 800, married John Sample; Levi, 
born April 1 6, 1 802, married Arvilla Austin; Daniel, born August 
9, 1804, who died unmarried; George, born October 30, 1807, 
married Almira McNall; Hester, born June 1 7, 1 809, married Caleb 
Allen; Lorence, born December 16, 1811, married Nancy Hess; 
Mariah, born June 8, 1813, who died unmarried; Roswell, born 
July 2, 1817, married Mary Hilliard. The first death was that 

of Jacob, brother of Peter in 1 795, followed by that of his father 
in 1 798, aged eighty-seven years. 

Peter Sheffer, Jr., resided in the cabin on the flats for ten years, 
during which time four of his family of eleven children were born. 
In 1 798 the timber was cut, preparations were made for building, 
and in the following year the first frame dwelling west of the 
river was erected, The boards for enclosing it were procured 
from the Allan Mill at the Genesee Falls. Beneath the roof of 
this house Sheffer passed more than half of a century, entering 




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into his final rest in 1 85 1 , in the eighty-ninth year of his age. 
His children have all passed from the earth, but decendents of 
the third and fourth generations reside in Wheatland and the 
adjoining towns. The dwelling he built has been remodeled and 
enlarged, but a portion of the original frame is still standing. 

Peter Sheffer was a man of strict integrity, was genial, obliging 
and charitable. 

Possessing more than an ordinary share of this world's goods, 
he was of invaluable assistance to his less favored neighbors in 
aiding them to obtain a start in their new homes. 

Sheffer was of German descent, inheriting the peculiarities 
characteristic of that nationality. He was no genius:-- the blood 
coursed sluggishly through his veins. Patient, persistent, plodding, 
he perhaps accomplished more, and was better fitted for the 
sphere in life which he was called to fill, than would have been 
a man of more brilliant parts, or of a higher nervous 
temperament. 



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SETTLERS PRIOR TO 1800. 



For a decade of years after the advent of Sheffer, the settlement 
of the neighborhood was very slow. The accession of families 
exceeded but little the number of years that intervened before 
the close of the Century. 

Christopher Dugan, Jacob Schoonover, Isaac Scott, Hinds Cham- 
berlain, Jesse Beach, Cyrus Douglass, Reuben Heath, Joseph Mor- 
gan, Francis Albright, Frederick and Nicholas Hetzler and John 
McNaughton (with the first installment of the Scotch Colony in 
1 799) are nearly all of those who came before the close of the 
Eighteenth Century. 

The exact year when Christopher Dugan settled at the mouth 
of the creek which still bears his name, is unknown, He was a 
brother-in-law of Indian Allan, and probably came here with, or 
soon after followed him. He assisted Allan in the erection of the 
mills at Genesee Falls in 1 789-90, and had charge of these mills 
in 1 793 and 1 794. His farm on the creek was sold to Samuel 
Street in 1 79 1 . He was chosen Path Master at the first election 
held in Northampton in 1797, and his name appears on the tax 
roll of 1800 as being the possessor of 1300 acres of land. Of his 
later history nothing definite can be learned. The impression 
prevails that he followed Allan in his retreat to Canada. 

Isaac Scott, from whom the village of Scottsville derives its 
name, took up his residence here in I 790, obtaining title to most 
of the land now embraced within the boundaries of the Scottsville 
Fire District. He built a log house upon the south side of Main 
Street, opposite the present Cargill House. In after years addi- 
tions were made to the structure as occasion called for more room. 
In the first year of the Nineteenth Century this cabin was opened 
as a house of entertainment, kept at first by Scott, and afterward 
by his son Jacob. The Scott Hotel has been thus described:— It 
presented from the north the appearance of a one and a half 
story building, containing on the first floor two square rooms, with 
a sleeping loft above, while in the basement which was lighted 
from three sides, was the kitchen and dining room. The barn 
connected with the hotel was across the highway, east, on the 
premises owned for many years by Mrs. Mary M. Fraser, and now 
the property of W. H. Losee. 



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Scott was from New Hampshire, a man past middle age, with 
a family of grown children. His wife was Lydia Chamberlain. 
Two of his daughters married brothers by the name of Douglass, 
one married Jesse Beach, a prominent resident of Scottsville, and 
another married a Mr. Davis, a hotel keeper on the State Road 
east of Le Roy. Mr. Scott died in 1818, his wife survived him 
fourteen years. Both are buried in Oatka Cemetery. 

Scott was of medium stature; affable and courteous; made and 
retained friends, and enjoyed the confidence and respect of his 
fellow men. 

Hinds Chamberlain, a brother of Mrs. Isaac Scott, came in 
1 791, remaining for the period of ten years. In 1 792 in company 
with Jesse Beach and Reuben Heath, he made the journey on 
foot to Presque Isle ( now Erie, Pa. ) , camping nights at LeRoy, 
Great bend of the 1 onawanda, and Buffalo, the only resident of 
the latter city being one Winne, an Indian trader. Chamberlain, 
acted as Highway Commissioner, laid out the road from Scotts- 
ville to Wheatland Centre. In I 798 he was elected Constable, 
and his name is on the tax roll of 1 800. He married the widow of 
Malcom Mc Laren, one of the early Scotch settlers in the western 
part of the town. In 1801 he removed to LeRoy settling near 
Fort Hill. He died in 1849, aged 84 years. 

Jesse Beach and Cyrus Douglass were sons-in-law of Scott, and 
if they did not accompany him, settled here the same year. 
Both were active business men. Douglass for some years before 
the close of the 1 8th Century lived with, and had charge of his 
father-in-law's estate. Both removed with Chamberlain to LeRoy 
in 1801; after residing there a few years Beach removed to 
Niagara County and Douglass to the new State of Indiana. 

Reuben Heath, a native of Vermont, came here a single man, 
in the summer of 1 79 1 , and settled on the North road, upon lot 
No. 61, building thereon a log house. He married a sister of 
Elisha Farwell, a prominent settler in the vicinity of Belcoda. 
He became the father of a large family. Three of his 

daughters, Mrs. Thomas Halsted, Mrs. David K. Nettleton and 
Mrs. Harvey W. Hyde, resided in the village of Scottsville until 
their death. Heath died June 15, 1818, and his remains are 
in Oatka Cemetery. At present there is no descendent of his 
living in the town. Eldridge Heath, the youngest, and the last 

of the family of thirteen children, died in New York City 



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March 19, 1906, aged 85 years, and was buried at Mt. Hope 
Cemetery, Rochester, N. Y. 

Joseph Morgan, a soldier of the American Revolution, was 
born in Massachusetts, October 18, 1754. He enlisted in 1776 
and served through the war, receiving his discharge in 1 783. 
He was present at the battles of Monmouth, Germantown, 
Brandywine Ford and Stony Point, passed the winter of 1778 at 
Valley Forge and was at the Siege of Yorktown. He emigrated 
to Western New York in 1 789, settling at the confluence of 
Honeoye Creek with the Genesee. In the following year his son, 
Joseph Morgan, Jr., the first white child in the town of Rush, was 
born. In 1 792 he moved across the river, taking up a tract of 
land adjoining Sheffer, and built a log cabin where the highway 
leading to Rochester is crossed by the tracks of the Penn. R. R. 
He died February 6th, I 829, and was buried in the little neglect- 
ed cemetery on the River Road, just north of the town line. 
Unfortunately his grave was unmarked, and its exact location is 
unknown. His descendants of the fourth and fifth generation 
are residing in the vicinity. 

The Hetzler brothers, from eastern Pennsylvania, came in 1 795 
and settled on the same road next west of Heath, Nicholas 
locating on lot No. 58, building a log house near a copious 
spring, back from the highway, and Frederick still farther west 
on lot 55, now owned by Felix Burns. After the death of the 
heads of these families the children removed to Orleans County. 

John Mc Naughton, accompanied by Malcom Mc Laren, James 
Mc Laren, Peter Campbell and Donald McVean, constituting 
the advance guard of the Scotch settlers, came in 1 799. 
Mc Naughton settled on lot 27, a short distance west of Wheat- 
land Centre. He was a prominent business man, engaged exten- 
sively in farming, bought and sold grain, and erected the first 
distillery in the town. He had a family of three sons and three 
daughters. 

The Mc Larens settled on the creek road two miles farther 
west. After residing here a few years Malcom died, and James 
removed to lands now owned by Mrs. Isaac Budlong, building 
a house upon the banks of the Genesee, some twenty-five rods 
south of the Oatka. A brief residence in the locality selected 
was sufficient, and a second removal took him across the lake 
to Canada West. 

Peter Campbell located in the vicinity of the big spring in 
Caledonia, and Donald McVean two miles farther south. 



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SETTLERS PROM 1800 TO 1810. 



During the first decade of the Nineteenth Century the tide of 
immigration set in with a stronger current. The opening year 

brought an accession to the Scotch settlement. Alexander 

Thompson, Donald and John Anderson, John Mc Pherson, John 
Christie, and John Mc Dermid, settled on the Creek road and in 
the vicinity of Beulah. Located in other parts of the town were 
John Smith, Christopher Laybourn, John Finch, James Wood, 
Newman Warren, Samuel Cox and sons Joseph, Isaac and James; 
John, William and Philip Garbutt, John W. Lawson, Donald 
Mc Kenzie, John and Robert Mc Kay, Powell Carpenter, Thomas 
Stokoe, Darius Shadbolt, John Sage, William Reed, William Lacy, 
Harris Rogers, 1 nomas Mumford, David and Elisha Farwell, 
William Shirts, James Fraser, George Goodhue, Joseph Blackmer, 
Rufus Cady, Joseph Tucker, Andrew Cone, Benjamin Irish, and 
others, affording unmistakable evidence that the scattered famil- 
ies were soon to reap the social and educational advantages inci- 
dent to a more thickly settled community. 



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SETTLERS FROM 1810 TO 1820. 



During the second decade of the Century the incoming of 
home seekers was checked by the war of 181 2~ 1814, and yet 
the number was large. In the roster of Captain Lacy's Company 
which went to the frontier in 1814, will be found the names of 
many early settlers of Wheatland, together with the names of 
many sons of the early settlers. In addition to the names record- 
ed the following are added, all of whom became residents of the 
town prior to the year 1 820:-- 

Augustus Bristol, Freeman Edson, Abraham and William 
Haynes Hanford, Donald and John Mc Vean, Alvah Savage, 
Isaac I. Lewis, Henry Tarbox, Osborn Filer, Caleb Allen, Jona- 
than Babcock, George H. Smith, Rawson Harmon, Donald Mann, 
Ebenezer Skinner, Thomas Faulkner, John Welch, James Olms- 
tead, Solomon Brown and sons, Calvin Armstrong, Frederick 
Bennett, Clark Hall, George Ensign, Seeley Finch, William 
Fraser, and Thomas Lowry. 



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EARLY MERCHANTS, PHYSICIANS 
AND LAWYERS. 



MERCHANTS. 



Abraham Hanford opened a store for the sale of merchandise 
in Scottsville in 1814. His followers in trade to the middle of the 
century were: Osborn Filer, Wm. Haynes Hanford, Ira Carpenter, 
E. T. Miller, Freeman M. Edson, J. P. Sill, Lucius C. Andrus, 
Joseph Cox, Samuel Scofield, Elmer Garbutt, and Wm. H. 
Hanford, Jr. 

Philip Garbutt commenced selling goods at Garbuttsville in the 
twenties; and about the same time Clark Hall opened a store at 
Wheatland Centre. 

The first in this branch of trade in Mumford was Robert Brown. 
Others who have been in the same pursuit in that village are 
Philip Garbutt, Phelps and Havens, Otis Comstock, Milton A. 
Hyde and A. F. McPherson. 

PHYSICIANS. 

The first medical practitioner in Scottsville was Dr. Guthrie; 
followed by Augustus Bristol, Freeman Edson, E. G. Munn, 
Peter Mc Naughton and Wm. G. Lacy. Wm. J. Howe and 
J. F. Mc Ammond are the present physicians in Scottsville. 

Dr. Tower was Mumford's first physician, followed by Dr. John 
R. Craig. Lucius W. Byam is the present physician of that 

village. 

LAWYERS. 

Phederus Carrier opened a law office in Scottsville in 1831. 
His successors down to 1850 were Joseph A. Eastman, Thomas 
Frothingham, John C. Chumasero, Alexander Mann, E. Peshine 
Smith, John Dorr, and D. D. S. Brown. Later Menzo Van Voorhis 
and W. G. Ashby practiced law in Scottsville, and in 1906 David 
C. Salyerds opened an office there. 

The late Donald Mc Naughton, of Mumford, was the only legal 
advisor that village ever possessed. 



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FLOURING MILLS. 



For fifteen years after the advent of Sheffer in 1 789 the only 
means the settlers had of obtaining flour and meal, except by 
crushing the grain in a hand mortar, was from the Allan Mill at 
the Falls of the Genesee. 

In 1 804 Francis Albright built the first grist mill ( upon the 
site afterward occupied by Hiram Smith, ) not only of Wheatland 
but the first ever erected upon the banks of the Oatka. This was 
a one and a half story frame building containing but a single run 
of stone. It was an exceedingly crude affair, and yet so superior 
to the slow and laborious product of the mortar, that it became 
widely known and drew trade from a long distance, the custom- 
ers patiently awaiting each his turn. In 1 820 this mill passed to 
the possession of his son Fowler Albright, and at a later period 
to that of Clark Hall, each of whom enlarged the structure and 
increased its productive power. In 1 844 the property came into 
the possession of Hiram Smith, who built upon its site a large 
mill containing five run of stone with new and modern machinery. 
Mr. Smith manufactured a grade of flour that acquired a high 
reputation and was in great demand in the eastern market. This 
mill was in successful operation until the fall of 1875, when it 
was consumed by fire and has never been rebuilt. 

In 1811 Peter Sheffer built the grist mill in Garbuttsville which 
soon after passed into the hands of his son-in-law, Philip Garbutt, 
by whom it was operated for many years. Mr. Garbutt was 
followed by his son John W. Garbutt, Elon Armstrong, Wm. C. 
Page, Isaac W. Salyerds and others. After standing idle for 
many years it has been leased by the Garbutt Gypsum Co, and 
converted to the manufacture of wall plaster. 

The first mill in the village of Scottsville was erected by Donald 
Mc Vean in 1816, and consisted of the central portion of the old 
wood structure long known as the " Hanford Mill. " The front 
and rear portions were added at a later period. A dam 
was constructed across the Oatka some thirty rods west of the 
mill, and the water conducted to it by a race-way along the base 
of the high bank, thus obtaining a fall of four or five feet. By 
the use of what was known as a n tub wheel " sufficient power 
was obtained to operate the simple machinery of the mill. 



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The location of this dam and race-way, constructed ninety years 
ago and unused for nearly four score years, is plainly discernible 
at the present time. Upon the completion of this mill it was 
sold by Mc Vean to Abraham Hanford, who conducted it for 
many years, when it passed into the hands of Joseph and Isaac 
Cox, Samuel Scofield, Wm. H. Hanford, Jr., and others. The 
mill was destroyed by fire on September 1 7, 1 884, at the time in 
possession of S. N. Holmes, of Syracuse. 

In 1 826 Abraham Hanford, jointly with Powell Carpenter, built 
a dam across the Oatka on what are now Burrells flats, and under 
the engineering and supervision of Alvin Savage constructed a 
race-way one and a quarter miles in length from the dam to the 
mill, thus obtaining a fall of twenty feet and a volume of water 
with power sufficient to operate two mills. 

In 1 830 Mr. Carpenter erected a three story brick mill a few 
rods west of the Hanford mill, which he conducted for some 
years, being succeeded in the business by his son Ira. This mill 
at the time owned and operated by Malcolm McVean, was 
burned in the day time September 16, 1878. After the lapse of 
some months a stock company was formed under the name of 
the " Scottsville Milling Co., " with the avowed purpose of replac- 
ing the brick mill. This building was erected in 1880 but upon 
its completion was used by M. C. Mordoff as a fruit evaporator 
and cider mill. In 1 886 the mill was filled with machinery for 
the manufacture of flour by L. M. Godley & Co. In the following 
year the capacity of the mill was greatly increased, steam was 
added to assist the water power, a switch was laid from the 
W. N. Y. & Penn. R. R., to the warehouse in the rear of the mill, 
and for several years an extensive business was conducted. 1 his 
new mill was destroyed by fire January 10, 1895. After remain- 
ing idle for the period of nine years the owners of the property, 
The Merchants Bank of Rochester, sold it to the Wheatland 
Power Company, who erected a flouring mill and electric light 
plant, it being the third mill that has stood upon the same site. 

In 1 849 George Sheffer built a grist mill upon the north bank 
of the abandoned n Scottsville & Genesee River Canal " some 
twelve rods south of the site of the famous Ebenezer Allan cabin. 
A race-way was constructed east of and parallel with the Genesee 
Valley Canal from the Oatka to its intersection with the old chan- 
nel of the abandoned Scottsville and River Canal. A rude dam 
of loose stone across the Oatka, a few rods below the aqueduct, 



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turned a sufficient quantity of water into the race-way to operate 
the mill. 

This mill had a good custom trade, much of which came from 
Henrietta over the new bridge across the Genesee, one-half mile 
below. This mill, at the time leased and conducted by Mr. Balzac, 
of Rochester, was burned to the ground November 25, 1860, and 
never rebuilt. 

In 1 808 the Mc Kay Brothers built upon Spring Creek in Mum- 
ford a small custom mill, consisting of but a single run of stone. 
A year or more later the interest of Robert Mc Kay in the prop- 
erty was transferred to Thomas Mumford and the firm of Mc Kay 
& Mumford conducted the business until 1817 when the old 
mill was removed and upon its site a solid stone foundation laid, 
upon which a strong oak three story frame was erected and the 
mill equipped with four run of stone. In 1823 the mill passed 
into the hands of E. H. S. Mumford who conducted the business 
for the period of ten years. Since 1833 its owners and operators 
have been many, among whom were H. Hutchinson, Philip 
and Peter Garbutt, S. Salsbury, Gilbraith & Hammond, James 
Mc Queen, Page & Son, and Wm. C. Page. It was in the custody 
of the last named when it burned to the ground September 15, 
1 894. Its site remains vacant. 

The mill that stood upon the banks of the Oatka a few rods 
west of the Allen woolen factory in Mumford, was built by 
Donald Mc Kenzie in 1827 and the business conducted by him 
twelve years, when it passed into the hands of Remington & 
Allen, by whom, and by Oliver Allen & Son or their tenants, it 
was conducted until the fall of 1901, when it followed the exam- 
ple of its predecessors and went up in smoke. 

It will be observed that a singular fatality has attended the 
flouring mills of wheatland. Omitting the new mill in Scottsville, 
completed and in operation in 1905, there have been eight in 
number, and with the single exception of the Garbutt Mill (which 
has been converted to another use) they have all been consumed 
by fire. 



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HOTELS. 



The first hotel in Wheatland, that of Isaac Scott, has been 
mentioned in the chapter on "Settlers prior to 1 800," while that of 
Augustus Bristol and Powell Carpenter are referred to in the 
chapter on "Scottsville's First Houses." 

The front part of the frame hotel on the south side of Main 
Street, opposite the market of Theodore Berry, was built in 1 824 
by James Brown and opened by him as a public house. After a 
few years the property passed into the possession of E. T. Miller, 
who added the rear portion of the building. This building has 
been used continually as a public house to the present time. Its 
owners and occupants have been many, among whom in addition 
to those named above are: George Ensign, John T. Spencer, 
John W. Innis, M. O. Baxter, C. P. White, Abram H. Robinson, 
C. C. Merrett, J. Stringham, and Malcolm Mc Vean. 

The brick building east of and adjoining the Catholic Church 
was built by James Cox in 1825 for a hotel, and as such kept by 
him for several years. Afterward Dr. E. G. Munn used it for an 
eye infirmary. It has been used for a parochial school and is now 
the Priest's residence. 

The brick building on the south side of Main Street, now occu- 
pied by L. M. Slocum as a hardware store, was built in 1 863 by 
Ellis Mc Queen for a hotel and was kept as such by him for 
several years. Mc Queen was followed by Benjamin B. Carpenter, 
William Ackley, Malcolm Mc Vean and others down to 1878, 
when it was converted to its present use. 

The brick house on the corner, in Garbutt, latterly known as 
the Price House, was built in 1 832 by Jefferson Edmonds for a 
hotel and kept as such by him for several years. 

The house in Garbutt now occupied by D. D. T. Brown was 
for a number of years kept as a public house. 

The brick house on the Mudge farm at Hall's Corners was 
built by Clark Hall about 1825 and conducted by him as a pub- 
lic house for a brief period. Hall's successors were a Mr. 
Mc Lean, Mr. Ayers, Benjamin B. Bissell, Harris Rogers and John 
Murdock. It was abandoned as a public house in the 50's. 



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As early as 1814 John Sage opened his log cabin, which was 
located in the forks of road north of Belcoda, as a house of 
entertainment to the traveling public. 

The first public house in Mumford was a small frame building 
that stood upon the site now occupied by the brick " Exchange." 
It was built in the early twenties and for some years was kept by 
John W. Watkins and afterward by Benjamin Dobson. This 
building was removed about 1835 next east of the Campbell 
store and is still standing. 

The brick Exchange Hotel was built by Libbirs White in 1835. 
Its first landlord was Duncan McNaughton, who kept the house 
for a period of twenty years, since which time it has had many 
landlords and tenants, among those best remembered are Thomas 
Ward, and Malcolm McVean. 



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RIVER NAVIGATION. 



Prior to the construction of the Erie Canal a portion of the 
surplus products of the farms and mills of Wheatland was drawn 
by ox teams to Hanford's Landing, north of Rochester, and there 
shipped by river and lake to Montreal. 

The completion of the Erie Canal to Rochester in 1825 opened 
a new channel to tide water, and a new market, of which the 
shippers of the valley availed themselves. Warehouses were 
erected at frequent intervals upon the banks of the Genesee, one 
of which was located at the Cox Ferry, and another at the Sheffer 
Landing, two miles below, north of Allan's Creek and not far 
from its mouth. The boats navigating the river at this time were 
flat bottomed scows, propelled up stream with setting poles, 
receiving their cargo from the warehouses and moved down with 
the current of the stream. 

This class of boats continued to ply the river until the opening 
of the Genesee Valley Canal in 1840. In 1825 a small stern 
wheel steamer, the " Genesee," Capt. Wm. W. Wood, was put on 
the river to ply between Geneseo and the Rapids, for passengers, 
freight, and the towing of boats. This venture was not a success, 
and at the close of the second season the boat was withdrawn. 



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FERRIES. 



A ferry was established between the towns of Avon and 
Caledonia by Benjamin R. Barry in 1 790. This at first consisted 
of row boats, but a few years later what was known as a rope 
ferry was constructed. 

Between Wheatland and the towns of Rush and Henrietta, until 
a much later date, the only method of crossing the Genesee was 
upon the ice in winter and by fording in the summer, both of 
which was attended with some danger, and at certain seasons of 
the year impracticable. The following from the records of the 
Clerk of Genesee County gives us the date of the establishment 
of the Cox Ferry. 

"Court of Common Pleas, Genesee Co., N. Y. 

June term, 1820. 

On reading and hearing the petition of Joseph Cox, of the 
town of Caledonia, praying for a license to establish a ferry across 
the Genesee River, from the town of Caledonia near the mouth 
of Allan's Creek, and near the dwelling of said Cox, on motion 
of E. S. Allen, counsel for said petitioner, it is ordered that said 
Joseph Cox have license to establish and use a ferry across said 
river, at the place aforesaid, for the term of one year from this 
date." 

Then follows a list of the rates of toll which he was authorized 
to collect for transporting passengers, horses, cattle, sheep, etc., 
across the river. 

In 1820 and 1821 Mr. Cox employed a young man living in 
Scottsville named Buck to take charge of and operate said ferry. 
More than three score years afterward the Rev. William D. Buck, 
of the Methodist E. Church, gave the writer the following account 
of its construction and method of propulsion. A hawser or large 
rope cable was thrown across the river and fastened to trees 
upon each side. The boat was a large flat bottomed scow, 
attached to the cable by iron rings. It was propelled across the 



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stream by pulling on the cable hand over hand. A windlass with 
long ropes attached was erected upon the banks, to use in case 
of heavy loads, or when the current was rapid. Mr. Buck said 
that the volume of water in the Genesee was much greater in 
1820 than it was in 1880. 

About the same time the Cox Ferry was built, another simliar 
in construction and operation was started on the Sheffer flats, at 
the point where the Henrietta road strikes the river bank. Both 
of these ferries were maintained until the construction of the 
bridge between Wheatland and Rush, at the point where the 
Cox Ferry had operated. 



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BRIDGES. 



The first bridge ever erected over the Genesee was the one 
between Avon and Canawaugus, built probably in 1807 or 1808. 
One of the Livingston County histories gives an earlier date, that 
of 1 804, but this is improbable. Simon Pierson, a resident of 
Le Roy, states in Turner's " Phelps and Gorhams Purchase, " that 
he came to Genesee County by way of Avon late in the Fall of 
1 806, and that the only method of crossing the Genesee was by 
a wretched scow. 

The first bridge between the towns of Wheatland and Rush, 
of which Ora Carpenter was the contractor, was built in 1830. 
This was a double track wooden bridge, its sides, the sustaining 
power, was formed of 3 x 12 inch plank, placed diagonally 
across each other, and pinned together at the point of crossing, 
the whole protected by a roof. This bridge with only ordinary 
repairs was in use forty years, and was not in a bad condition 
when removed. The present structure which replaced the old 
wood bridge, was made by a Detroit, Mich., firm, and set up 
under the superintendence of Mr. De Graffe in 1 869, at an ex- 
pense of $12,000.00. It is an iron structure consisting of a single 
span of 230 feet. 

The first bridge between Wheatland and Henrietta was of 
wood, built in 1 849, at a point where the West Henrietta Road 
strikes the river bank. This bridge and the road to it across 
the Sheffer flats were opened to the public in 1850. This bridge 
was swept from its abutments by a flood in the Fall of 1857. 

A second bridge, constructed of iron, was built between these 
towns in 1 860 at a point forty rods south of the location of the 
first bridge. The long continued high water in the spring of 
1 892 washed the earth from the west abutment, and so 
weakened it as to render it unsafe. 1 his bridge was then con- 
demned and closed to the public. 

The third bridge, of wrought iron, was erected still farther 
south, in line with the highway that crosses the Sheffer flats. 
This bridge was built in 1895, at a cost of $18,000.00. 



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HIGHWAYS. 



The first settlers in Wheatland found, upon their arrival here, 
a well beaten Indian trail, from Canawaugus to the Lake. 

The road laid out by Peter and Jacob ShefTer in 1 792 and '93 
from the Oatka to the Falls of the Genesee, consisted in widening 
this trail sufficiently for the passage of ox teams and the removal 
of the trees within its lines. The streams were bridged with logs 
in 1794. 

Prior to the town organization, probably in 1 795, Hinds Cham- 
berlain, acting as Commissioner of Highways, laid out the road 
from Scottsville to Wheatland Centre. 

At about the same time the road running west from the 
Sheffer farm was opened; Reuben Heath, Frederick and Nicholas 
Hetzler had built log houses on that road and were occupying 
them. 

The first road recorded by the town board of Northampton was 
in I 799, known as the " Canawaugus " road from Braddocks Bay 
south to the Chili line, - thence south-easterly to its intersection 
with the River road, at Stephen Peabody's distillery, one and a 
half miles north of Scottsville. This road was surveyed by Alex. 
Rea, and the work upon it done under the supervision of Cyrus 
Douglass and Reuben Heath, two residents of Scottsville. After 
the lapse of ten years that portion of the road lying in Chili was 
abandoned and the fences removed. The northern portion of 
the road is still in use. 

In 1826 a road was opened from David Farwell's past Eben- 
ezer Skinner's to Weaver's Mill. This mill was west of the 
Wheatland Center Road, on the outlet of Blue Pond. 

In 1 832 a road was laid out from Farwell's Mill,- west past 
Shirts' tan yard. This road was discontinued in 1848. Farwell's 
Mill was on the north end of the farm now owned by the Cam- 
eron Mc Vean Estate and must have been run by power from 
the streams embraced in the L. M. Drury place and now known 
as " The Cedars. " Shirts' tan yard was on the south or south east 
side of the road from Belcoda to Clifton. The road from 
Farwell's Mill past this tan yard was on the north line of the 
present Cameron Mc Vean and Joseph Blaker farms. 



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The road from Rochester Street Scottsville, across Sheffers flats 
to the River bridge, was opened in 1850. 

Railroad Street from Freidel's cooper shop in Scottsville to its 
intersection with Caledonia Avenue, in 1852. This street was so 
named because it was the route over which the Scottsville and 
Le Roy R. R. had entered the village. 

Road across Lewis's flats, from Caledonia Avenue in Scottsville 
to Luther Bowerman's, in 1 854. 

Brown's Avenue, from Church Street north to Rufus Green's, in 
1856. 

Third Street, from Brown's Avenue to Rochester Street in 1862. 

Beckwith Avenue, from Brown's Avenue to Rochester Street, 
in 1863,— released 1876. 

Maple Street, from Brown's Avenue to B. R. & Pittsburg Station, 
in 1873. 

Hanford Avenue, from the B. R. & Pittsburg Station to Cale- 
donia Avenue, laid out in 1906. 

There is no record upon the town books in relation to Railroad 
Street, or the road across the Lewis flats. 

What is now called Second Street was one of the early highways 
in Scottsville, and was at first known as Edson's Lane. 

The first section of road built in Wheatland by State aid, was 
that part of Rochester Street and the River Road north from the 
Oatka Creek bridge in Scottsville to the Chili town line, completed 
in 1905. 



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EARLY MANUFACTORIES. 



Among the earliest of Wheatland's manufacturing industries 
were its distilleries. The first of these was John Mc Naughton's, 
on the Creek road a short distance west of his dwelling. At this 
period of time there was no home market for grain, and the cost 
of transportation to an eastern one was greater than its market 
value. Under these circumstances Mc Naughton's example was 
quickly followed by Stephen Peabody, Peter Sheffer, Sherman 
Bills, John Finch, Abraham Hanford and others, until it is said 
there were eight of these concerns in operation in the town. 
They were, however, all small affairs; and their united product 
not large. By the United States Census of 1 820 it appears this 
number had been reduced to four, viz: Hutchinson's, Brown's, 
Finch's and Hanford's. It has been stated by those who were 
deemed competent to judge, that the quality of the product of 
these early stills has never been improved. This branch of in- 
dustry long ago ceased to exist in Wheatland. 



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EARLY MECHANICS. 



John Finch was Scottsvilles' first blacksmith. He was one of 
the founders of the " Farmers Library," and is briefly noticed in 
the chapter on that institution. Soon after Finchs' arrival a 
Mr. Sharp built and occupied a small shop that stood upon the 
site now occupied by S. Mc Conkey. After a few years Sharps 
shop was burned and he left the village. Luman Guthrie built 
and for some years occupied the building still standing. This 
shop has been owned, and the business conducted by many 
persons, among whom were Isaiah North, Orrin Cartwright, George 
Hahn, and the present owner, Samuel Mc Conkey. 

A Mr. Brown was the first shoemaker. His shop was upon the 
south side of Main Street, east of Wm. Carver's house. 

Early in the Nineteenth Century William Dickinson conducted 
the shoe business in a log house that stood upon the lot now 
occupied by Mrs. Wm. R. Mc Vean. J. 1 . Spencer and Harry 
Beecher were his journeymen, and Wm. Weeks an apprentice. 

Hotchkiss, Nelson Gould, and Caleb Allen were early shoe- 
makers; Martin Goodrich and Henry W. Read were later in the 
trade. Two of the latters sons, George W. and Jehial Read, 
became noted business men in New York City. 

The early carpenters were John Botsford, Samuel Welch, Moses 
Doane and David K. Nettleton. 

Edward Collins was the first bricklayer, and Daniel P. Ham- 
mond at a later period. 

The coopers were Wm. Welch, George Ensign, Sears Galusha, 
William Gould and Harvey W. Hyde. 

Mr. Howe, Enos White, John Hammond and Samuel O. 
Severance were harness makers. 

John Farquerson, Henry Tarbox, John Wilber and Patrick Raf- 
ferty, wagon makers; Isaac Mc Donald and Francis X. Beckwith 
cabinet makers. 

James Savage took the first daguerrotypes. 



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Alvin Savage was a millwright, a surveyor, an engineer and an 
inventor. In 1 824 he constructed two portable threshing machines, 
one for John Mc Naughton and the other for the Mc Vean brothers, 
on the North road, the first that were used in town. He also in 
the latter part of the 30's built a grain reaper, the cutting gear 
consisting of a series of round steel plates with teeth upon the 
outer edge, similar to a circular saw. This machine was tested 
upon the Miller flats, south of the creek, in the presence of a 
large crowd. Its trial was not a success. It proved too cumbrous 
and weighty for a single team; and the motion of its cutting gear 
was not rapid enough to prevent the teeth from clogging. 



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SCOTTSVILLE AND GENESEE RIVER 

CANAL. 



In 1 829 a charter was obtained from the State Legislature 
authorizing Powell Carpenter and others to construct a canal from 
the bridge over Allans Creek, in the village of Scottsville, to the 
Genesee River. No action was taken under this grant until 1 836, 
when a company was formed with a capital of $30,000. This 
stock was taken by residents of the village, Powell Carpenter, 
Abraham Hanford, Freeman Edson, William Haynes Hanford 
and Isaac Cox being the largest shareholders, acting as a board 
of Directors, to let the contract and oversee the work. Joseph 
Cox and Thomas Halstead were awarded the contract for con- 
structing the canal. 

A dam was built across the Oatka, where the State dam was, 
and a guard lock, at the entrance to the canal where the old 
feeder gates now are. From the creek it took a northeasterly 
course for one hundred rods, where it turned to the east and ran 
direct to the river. A lock was built at its junction with the 
Genesee, which having a quicksand foundation proved very 
expensive. 

Upon the completion of this work a jubilee was held at the 
Eagle Hotel, at the time conducted by Major George Ensign, 
where a feast was partaken of, toasts drank, congratulatory 
speeches listened to, and a general time of rejoicing indulged in. 

The first craft to navigate the waters of this canal was the 
" United States," a boat commanded by Capt. John Ott, long a 
resident of Scottsville. 

The Scottsville Canal was in operation a portion of two seasons, 
during which a boat could receive its cargo from the rear of the 
mills, pass down the creek to the dam, through the Scottsville 
Canal to the river, down that stream to the Rapids, through the 
feeder to its junction with the Erie, and discharge its cargo at the 
city warehouses, or pass through the Erie with unbroken bulk to 
tide water. 



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The cost of building this waterway greatly exceeded the esti- 
mate, and the capital of the company was sunk in its construction. 

In building the Genesee Valley Canal in 1838—39 the State 
took possession of the creek dam, of the lock at the entrance, 
and that portion of the Scottsville Canal between the creek and 
the point where it turned east to the river. After some contro- 
versy the State refunded to the Scottsville company about one- 
third of the sum they had expended in its construction. 

THE GENESEE VALLEY CANAL. 

The Genesee Valley Canal was completed and opened for 
navigation from Rochester to Mt. Morris during the summer of 
1840. Immediately a line of freight boats and passenger packets 
was placed upon it. The packets were neat and attractive, and 
being drawn by a three horse tandem team, attained a speed of 
four miles an hour. This method of transportation became at 
once very popular. The people thought the acme of comfort in 
travel had been reached, and congratulated each other upon the 
ease, the facility, and even upon the rapidity with which they 
were enabled to travel. 

From the opening of the Genesee Valley Canal in 1 840 to the 
close of navigation in 1 86 1 , an office for the collection of tolls 
was maintained in Scottsville. During the continuance of the 
Scottsville office the following persons officiated as collector, viz: 
Levi Lacy, Thomas Mc Intosh, D. D. S. Brown, John Dorr, 
Charles Hall, R. N. Halsted, James F. Beckwith, Jacob S. 
Gallentine, Wm. G. Lacy and George E. Slocum. 

The Valley Canal for navigation purposes was abandoned by 
the State in 1878, and in 1880 was sold to a company which 
purposed building a railroad upon its line. 



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RAILROADS. 



In April 1 836 by Legislative enactment Powell Carpenter 
and his associates 'were empowered to form a company and 
construct a railroad from the village of Scottsville to the village of 
Canandaigua. A preliminary survey of the route was made but 
no farther action toward its construction was ever taken. 



THE SCOTTSVILLE & LE ROY RAILROAD. 

In May of the same year, 1836, a charter was obtained for 
building a railroad from Scottsville, Monroe County, to Le Roy, 
Genesee County. Powell Carpenter, Abraham Hanford, Philip 
Garbutt, E. H. S. Mumford, Clark Hall, Ira Carpenter and Thomas 
Hallsted were named as Corporators. The capital stock of the 
road was $200,000. From Scottsville to Caledonia the road was 
graded, ties laid, timbers laid thereon to which was spiked a 
ribbon of hard wood, one by three inches, in place of an iron 
rail. No iron was used except at the highway crossings. The 
location of this track most of the distance was in the highway. 
1 he hill at Halls' Corners was evaded by turning to the south in 
front of Philip Garbutt's and running around the base of the hill. 
It kept north of the creek to the upper bridge in Mumford, where 
it veered to the south, crossed the creek passing through the 
western part of the village and on to Caledonia. Horse cars were 
used upon this road for two seasons, principally to bring flour 
and plaster from the mills upon its line to Scottsville for shipment. 
Forty thousand dollars was expended and lost in this venture. 
This road was exclusively a Wheatland undertaking; its corpora- 
tors and stockholders were residents of this town. In its inception 
the building of this road was no visionary scheme. It was 
intended by its projectors to push on to Batavia and the west, and 
to connect at Canandaigua with the road then in process of con- 
struction from Auburn to that village. Those engaged in this 
project were men of enterprise . and broad views, and were 
eminently worthy of if they did not achieve success. 



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THE GENESEE VALLEY RAILROAD. 

The Genesee Valley Railroad, now a portion of the New York, 
Lake Erie & Western Railroad, was completed and in operation 
from Rochester to Avon in 1853. An omnibus ran in connection 
with its trains from the village of Scottsville, to the station in Rush 
which for many years was called Scottsville, later Pixley, and now 
Oatka. This route was attended with many inconveniences, and 
yet it was so superior to any method that had preceeded it, that 
for twenty years, or until the completion of the State Line Rail- 
road from Rochester to Le Roy, it was the route taken by the 
residents of the eastern part of the town to reach the outside 
world. 

THE ROCHESTER & STATE LINE RAILROAD. 

The Rochester and State Line Railroad in its inception was a 
Wheatland institution. At one period in its early history its 
officers, the President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, and 
four of the nine directors, were residents of Wheatland. 

D. D. S. Brown, Oliver Allen and Donald Mc Naughton were 
active and energetic in pushing this enterprise. 

This road was opened for business from Rochester to Le Roy 
in 1874; to Salamanca in 1878, and completed to Pittsburg at a 
later date. In 1872 the town of Wheatland issued its bonds to 
the amount of $70,000.00 to aid in its construction, $53,000.00 of 
which has been paid. In 1 880 the control of this road passed 
from the hands of those who had managed it and its name 
was changed to The Rochester and Pittsburg R. R. Company. 
Later on it was again changed to the Buffalo, Rochester & 
Pittsburg R. R. Co. which name it now bears. 

THE GENESEE VALLEY CANAL RAILROAD. 

The use of the Genesee Valley Canal for transportation was 
abandoned by the State at the close of navigation in 1878. Two 
years later it was sold to the Genesee Valley Canal Railroad Co. 
It afterward became the Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia R. R. 



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Co., then a part of the Western New York & Pennsylvania System; 
it is now the Rochester Branch, Buffalo and Allegany Division of 
the Pennsylvania R. R. 

Work was commenced upon this line in 1 88 1 and in 1 883 was 
completed and trains were running from Rochester to Olean fol- 
lowing the towpath of the old canal for nearly the entire distance. 
By this transfer another avenue of trade and travel is furnished the 
towns upon its lines free of cost, that is, without the necessity of 
their issuing bonds to aid in its construction. 



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SCOTTSVILLES' FIRST HOUSES; 

THE BUILDERS, AND 

THEIR FAMILIES. 

The log cabin of Indian Allan built upon the flats in 1 786, 
and the frame structure of Peter Sheffer, Jr., built in 1 799, have 
been noticed in the personal sketches of those men; while the 
first house in the village of Scottsville, that of Isaac Scott, has been 
briefly described in the chapter on " Settlers prior to I 800." 

The first frame dwelling in the village is still in existence, and 
still in use. It originally stood upon the brow of the hill, in rear 
of the lot now owned by Mrs. Martha Woodgate. It was a one 
and a half story structure, built by Doctor Augustus Bristol in 1812, 
and used by him as a private residence until 1816, when it was 
opened to the traveling public as a house of entertainment. In 
the early twenties the Doctor vacated the house, after which, 
without any change in its appearance, it was occupied by various 
families down to 1 860, when the property came into the possession 
of Mr. Alexander Paul, who built the frame block now standing 
on the front of the lot, and removed the Bristol house to the rear 
of the new building, and it now forms the kitchen part of Mrs. 
Woodgates residence. 

Dr. Bristol and his wife came from Connecticut, settling here in 
1811. They had but two children, a son Ives, and a daughter 
Paulina. The Doctor died in 1862. His wife, a most amiable 
woman, retained her cheerful disposition, her industrious habits, 
her interest in the current events of the day, and her love for the 
society of the young to the last, passing away in 1879, aged 94 
years. 

The oldest frame dwelling in the village that has not been 
changed past all recognition, is the small house next west of the 
Cargill Hotel. This has been remodeled internally, the smoke 
stack with its double fireplace removed; but its outward appear- 
ance remains practically unchanged. It was built by Abraham 
Hanford in 1814 and occupied by him as a family residence for 
six or eight years. In the early twenties he built the two story 



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frame house on the south side of Main Street, now occupied by 
L. M. Slocum as a warehouse. Mr. Hanford occupied his new 
dwelling for a score of years, after which it was used as the par- 
sonage of the Presbyterian Church, and as such was occupied by 
Rev. Linus W. Billington and Rev. Milton Buttolph. Since then 
uses to which this building has been converted are many and 
various. Mr. Hanford had a family of six children, one son and 
five daughters. In 1 820 his boy, a little fellow of four years, fell 
from the bridge then in process of erection over Oatka Creek and 
was drowned. One daughter died in childhood; the others be- 
came the wives of Dr. Freeman Edson, Osborn Filer, Rev. William 
C. Wisner and Ira Carpenter. Mr. Hanford died December 1 7, 
1845, in the 63d year of his age, while upon a business trip to 
Michigan. 

In 1814 Dr. Freeman Edson came to the village, and upon 
deciding to make this his future home, began preparations for the 
construction of a dwelling house; and two years later, in 1816, 
erected on Rochester Street the frame house with its present pro- 
portions, which he continued to occupy during his life. 

As first constructed its outward dress was a plainer garb than 
the one that now adorns it. In the early forties the cornice, 
window casings, corner boards and front entrance were made 
to conform to the style of building then in vogue. Since then, a 
period of more than sixty years, its outward appearance has 
remained nearly unchanged. The Doctor was thrice married. 
His first wife was Miss Judith Mason; his second Mary, eldest 
daughter of Abraham Hanford, and his third Mrs. Lewis Good- 
rich. Of his four children, Mrs. Ashel C. Finney, of Kansas City, 
and Rev. Dr. Hanford A. Edson, of our village, survive him. 
The Doctor continued his practice until he had passed the age of 
four score and ten years, responding to every professional call 
with a step firm, a form erect, the lustre of his eye undimmed, 
and the powers of his mind unimpaired. The Doctor was a man 
of positive convictions and a determined will. His professional, 
political and religious opinions were held with a tenacity that 
yielded to no opposition, and admitted of no compromise. The 
cause of religion, of education, of emancipation, of temperance, 



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and every effort the tendency of which was to elevate and im- 
prove the condition of man, found in the Doctor an earnest and 
zealous advocate. Dr. Edson died June 24, 1883, in the ninety 
second year of his age. 

Wm. Haynes Hanford came to Scottsville as a clerk in his 
brother Abraham's store. Like his brother he was an energetic 
builder; not only of dwellings but of business blocks. In 181 7 he 
erected and for six years occupied the frame house upon the north 
side of Main Street, that was demolished in 1 89 1 , to make room 
for Windom Hall. In the twenties he built and occupied the 
brick house west of the Catholic Church, later known as the 
Starkey House, and now occupied by John Frawley. 

Among the business blocks erected by him were the front part 
of the brick store now occupied by Theodore Berry as a meat 
market, and the south east portion of the Dunn Brothers Block, 
now occupied by Joseph Stottle as a drug store, in both of which 
Mr. Hanford engaged in the sale of merchandise. In addition to 
his building and mercantile pursuits he was engaged some years 
in farming. He retired from active life some years before his 
death, which occured in 1 875, in the eighty second year of his age. 
Mr. Hanford had a family of three children; William H., Jr., of 
Scottsville and Washington, D. C, Joseph P., who died at sea many 
years ago, and a daughter Nancy, who became the wife of Judge 
David K. Cartter, of Washington, D. C. 

Powell Carpenter settled here in 1 804, locating upon the farm 
now occupied by Elon L. Galusha. His first house was construct- 
ed of logs; after a few years he built a larger frame house, a portion 
of that now on the place. In 1 820 he built the south east 
corner of what is now the Cargill House. This was a two story 
structure, 20 x 40 feet, occupying about one fourth of the space 
now covered by the hotel. Carpenter kept this public house a 
few years and was then succeeded by his son Ezra. Before 
Powell Carpenter left the hotel an addition of the same dimensions 
was added on the north, thus making the building forty feet square. 
The large addition upon the west was built in 1851 by E. T. 
Miller. When the premises came into the possession of William 
Ackley another story was added to the corner block, making it a 



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three story structure. In 1 826 Mr. Carpenter, jointly with Abraham 
Hanford, constructed the dam and race way now in use, and in 
1 830 Mr. Carpenter built and operated the brick mill that was 
destroyed by fire in 1878. When Mr. Carpenter retired from the 
hotel he took possession of the Hanford House where Windom 
Hall now stands, and this was his family residence until his death 
in 1853. His wife survived him five years. They had a family 
of ten sons, none of whom are living. 

Osborn Filer built the cobble stone store now occupied by 
Keys Brothers; also the cobble stone dwelling on Second Street, 
recently remodeled by Mr. Henry Horton. 

The early brick dwellings in the village, as well as many of the 
brick farm houses in the eastern part of the town, were built in 
the decade from 1 822 to I 832, with bricks that were manufactured 
in the village. Edward Collins laid the walls of most of the early 
brick houses; Daniel P. Hammond was master mechanic in the 
same line, at a later period. The last specimen of Hammond's 
handicraft before his removal to Wisconsin, being the parsonage 
of the Presbyterian Church, erected in 1 854. 



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GARBUTT. 



The village of Garbutt, long known as Garbuttsville, takes 
its name from the family who first settled there. Zachariah 
Garbutt, his wife, three sons, John, William and Philip, and his 
daughters, Elizabeth and Phebe, emigrated from England to this 
country in 1 798; stopping upon the banks of the Hudson for two 
years, they worked their way into the wilderness of Western New 
York, as far as the town of Seneca, Ontario Co., where they 
remained for the period of five years, during which time Mrs. 
Garbutt died. Their son Nicholas was born after their arrival in 
the United States. 

In 1 804 John Garbutt came to Wheatland, locating upon the 
north bank of the Oatka, on lot No. 48; and in the following year, 
Zachariah, with the remainder of his family, joined him in his 
new home. 

In 1807, Zachariah, the father, made a tour of the western 
country, going as far as the Mississippi, where he was taken sick, 
died, and was buried upon the banks of that river. His three 
sons, John, William and Philip, were upon the Niagara frontier 
in their country's service in the war of 1814. 

John Garbutt erected upon his farm east of the village a brick 
house, which was the family home for many years. He married 
a daughter of Rufus Cady and reared a family of five sons, Zach- 
ariah, Cassius, Elmer H., Volney and William F.; and three 
daughters, Mrs. Lucretia Robinson, Mrs. Lydia Edmunds and 
Mrs. Jane Harmon. Of this number Mrs. James A. Robinson, of 
Rochester, N. Y., is the only one living. A further sketch of 
John Garbutt appears in the chapter on the " Farmers Library " 
of which he was one of the founders. 

William Garbutt settled a short distance west of the village. 
He erected at first a log house, in which he resided some years; 
afterward building the commodious dwelling that now adorns 
the farm. He married Miss Elizabeth Dow, and had a family of 
eight, viz: Elizabeth, Margaret, William D., James, Phoebe, 
Zachariah, Robert R., and Philip. 



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In the Civil War of 1861 his son James was Wheatland's first 
offering upon his country's altar. He enlisted in Monroe County's 
first regiment, the old 1 3th, and died in his country's service. 
But three of William Garbutt's children survive. Philip is living 
upon the old homestead; while William D., and Robert R., are 
on farms in the immediate vicinity. 

Philip Garbutt, some years after its erection, came into posses- 
sion of the grist mill built by Peter Sheffer, and conducted the 
same for a long period; at the same time he was engaged in 
mining and grinding plaster, and in the sale of merchandise. At 
a later period, without forsaking his home industries, he was 
engaged in the same line of trade in the village of Mumford. 
Later in life he met with financial reverses, and removed to Ohio, 
where he died. He was held in high esteem by his fellow 
townsmen and for five years was their supervisor. His wife was 
Nancy Sheffer, the first white child born west of the Genesee 
River, January 20th, 1 793. They had a family of six children, 
viz: Peter, Sheppard, Philip, John W., Ann and Phoebe. Of this 
number but one survives, John W., who is living in the old 
homestead. 

Zachariah's daughter, Elizabeth, taught school in the log school 
house at Scottsville during the summer of 1 808; afterward mar- 
rying William Reed, by whom she had a large family of boys, 
who became prominent residents of Wheatland and of the adjoin- 
ing town of Chili. 

In excavating for the foundation of the grist mill at Garbutt in 
1811, the discovery was made of the vast bed of Gypsum that 
lay beneath the surface of the soil. It was afterward learned that 
this product was spread over a wide tract of territory through the 
center of the town. When ground the plaster was in great 
demand as a fertilizer of the soil, and farmers drove long dis- 
tances to obtain it. A large and lucrative trade immediately 
sprang up. After the opening of the Genesee Valley Canal large 
quantities were shipped to points upon its line; and to villages 
upon the Erie, east and west of Rochester. The mining and 
manufacturing of plaster gave a great impetus to the growth of 
the settlement. Mechanics of various kinds flocked in; factories 



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were started, and the business of the village kept even pace with 
its increase of population. Its residents were pleased, hopeful, 
elated. Some of them were accused of pride, with a disposition 
to boast of their acquisitions; of their church privileges; of the 
educational advantages of their schools; of their hotel accommo- 
dations; of the wealth of their mines; of the value of their me- 
chanical industries; and they claimed that the volume of their 
trade was the envy of merchants in neighboring villages. 

Be this as it may, in process of time as the years passed away, 
a change came o'er the spirit of their dream. Their church was 
demolished and its timber put to an ignoble use; their schools 
were reduced to one, and that a primary; their hotels were con- 
verted into dwelling houses; their workshops, one by one, slowly 
and silently sank from sight until there was but little left to the 
burg except its name. 

Now, however, after a slumber of two score years Garbutt has 
awakened to a new life, and the wheels of industry are once 
more in motion. It has been discovered that the virtues of 
gypsum are not confined to its fertilizing power, but that it is an 
indispensable ingredient in the manufacture of wall board and 
various other products for which there is a great and growing 
demand, and now the following establishments are located there, 
employing from 200 to 300 men:- The Empire Gypsum Com- 
pany; The Sackett Wallboard Company; The Garbutt Gypsum 
Company; The Lycoming Calcining Company, and The Diamond 
Wall Cement Company. 

Near by, at Wheatland, are The Monarch Plaster Company 
and the Consolidated Wheatland Plaster Company. 



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MUMFORD. 



First known to the world as " Mc Kenzie's Corners," then from 
the material of which its first dwellings were constructed as " Slab 
City ; " and later from one of its prominent and popular business 
men, Mr. E. H. S. Mumford, called " Mumfordville ; " and finally, 
at the suggestion of the Post Office authorities, who were desirous 
of economizing in space, time and labor, the last syllable was 
dropped from its name and it has since been called by its present 
cognomen, " Mumford." Had the usual custom been followed of 
naming the village from its founders, it would have borne the 
name of Mc Kay or Mc Kenzie. 

The Mc Kay brothers were of Scotch descent, though born in 
this country. 

John McKay came to Caledonia in 1803, and in the following 
year purchased of Charles Williamson, agent of the Pulteney Es- 
tate, the saw and grist mills he had just erected upon the outlet 
of the Big Spring. Three years later John was joined by his 
brother Robert, and together they purchased of Williamson a 
tract of 200 acres upon which the village of Mumford now stands, 
together with the water power of Spring Creek. The same year, 
1 806, the McKays erected upon their new purchase a saw mill; 
and in 1 808 a small grist mill upon the site afterward occupied 
by the Page mill. In 1809 Robert McKay sold his half interest 
in the Spring Creek property to Thomas Mumford, and returning 
to Caledonia, engaged in selling merchandise. 



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THE FARMERS LIBRARY. 



The Farmers Library, of Wheatland, was founded in January, 
1805, and antedates every institution of the kind in Western New 
York. 

The nucleus of this library was brought by John Garbutt on 
foot from the store of Myron Holly in Canandaigua. Additions 
were made to it until it numbered more than fifteen hundred vol- 
umes of standard works. The membership and interest in this 
Society increased with its years until its annual gathering for the 
election of officers, in point of numbers and enthusiasm, resembl- 
ed a town meeting. One of the original regulations for its govern- 
ment was that "the library should forever be kept within two 
miles of the bridge over Allans Creek on Isaac Scott's farm". 

The library was kept in Scottsville until 1810 when this re- 
striction was rescinded and the library removed to Albright's Mill. 

In 1 8 1 6 it was taken to Garbutt, where in the store, and at 
private residences it has since remained, having for many years 
been in the custody of the Hon. Philip Garbutt. 

At the time this library was established but few books could 
be found in the dwellings of the settlers; the issues of the daily 
press of the present time were unknown; the postal facilities 
irregular and uncertain. Under these circumstances the library 
was resorted to eagerly, its books perused with avidity, their con- 
tents forming the theme of family conversation and of public 
discussion, thus exerting a silent yet powerful influence in forming 
the character and shaping the destiny of those having access to 
its privileges; 

The founders of this library were ten in number, viz: Peter 
Sheffer, Isaac Scott, Cyrus Douglass, James Wood, John Finch, 
Christopher Laybourn, John Garbutt, Francis Albright, Powell 
Carpenter and Nathaniel Taylor. Brief sketches of Sheffer, Scott, 
Douglass and Carpenter are given elsewhere. 

Francis Albright came from Seneca County in 1 799, locating 
upon lot no 27 near the center of the town. Five years later he 



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built upon the site afterward occupied by Hiram Smith, a small 
grist mill. ( Noticed in the chapter on Wheatland's Flouring Mills.) 

Albright was the custodian of the Library from 1810 to 1816. 
He was an affable, benevolent and public spirited man, enjoying 
the respect and confidence of his fellow men. In 1820 he re- 
moved to Niagara County and died there twenty years later. 

John Garbutt was a shoemaker, a farmer, a surveyor and a 
politician. He worked at his trade, supervised his farm, surveyed 
many of the highways of Caledonia and Wheatland, and filled 
many town offices. He was Supervisor of Caledonia in 1 820, be- 
fore the division of the town, and Wheatlands' first Supervisor in 
1821. To his influence is ascribed the change of the name of the 
town from Inverness to Wheatland. ( Garbutt was not a Scotchman.) 
In 1 829 he was one of Monroe's representatives in the State 
Legislature. He died in 1855, the semi-centennial anniversary of 
the library's existence. 

James Wood was the first settler upon the farm now occupied 
by Mrs. Isaac Budlong. He was Commissioner of Highways in 
I 803 when the town was known as Southampton, Genesee County. 
In 1808 he sold his farm to Samuel Cox and removed to Chili. 

John Finch was a blacksmith, the first of his calling in Scottsville. 
He was a man of extensive reading and of more than ordinary 
mental culture. Possessing colloquial powers he delighted in 
disputations. He was Supervisor of Caledonia in 1812 and re- 
moved to the far west in 1,820. 

Christopher Laybourn was the original settler upon lot 49, now 
owned by the heirs of Julian J. Mc Vean. His residence, a log 
structure, was on the south side of the highway. He was a 
prominent man and took an active part in all public enterprises 
of the day. He was Supervisor during the four years the town 
was known as Southampton and one year after the name was 
changed to Caledonia. Upon his farm in 1810 was held the first 
general training in this town. Companies were present from 
Caledonia, Scottsville, Chili and Riga. In 1811 he sold his farm 
to John Mc Vean, the father of David, Duncan, John and Archibald 
Mc Vean, and removed to the state of Illinois. 



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Nathaniel Taylor was a resident of Garbutt, an old bachelor. 
He taught school in the log house at Belcoda and married one of 
his pupils, a girl many years his junior. This act occasioned 
some adverse criticism on account of the disparity in their age. 
Their wedding trip was to the far west. 



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SCHOOLS. 



The first school house erected and the first school ever taught 
in that portion of the state lying west of the Genesee River was 
in the town of Wheatland. 

This house was located on the creek road north of Mumford, 
about one hundred rods west of the bridge that spans the Oatka 
at the village of Mumford. It was constructed of logs by the 
Scotch settlers of that locality in the year 1803. The first teacher 
of this school was Alexander Mc Donald, who had previously 
been in the employ of Charles Williamson, agent for the sale of 
lands belonging to the Pulteney estate. Mc Donald afterward 
engaged in the sale of merchandise in the village of Caledonia 
and died there in 1826. 

The first school house erected in Scottsville was also of logs 
built in 1806. It was located at the south point of the triangular 
lot west of Brown's Grove. This house had but a brief existence, 
being destroyed by fire in 1808, whether from accident or design 
is unknown. 

The first teacher in this house was John Smith, the early land 
surveyor of this region, the father of the late Robert and Thomas 
Smith. Mr. Smith's residence was on the east side of the river 
road a few rods south of the road leading to the Oatka Station of 
the Erie R. R. 

Miss Elizabeth Garbutt, a daughter of Zachariah Garbutt, was 
Mr. Smith's successor. It was during her occupancy of the house 
that it was consumed. To complete the term of her engagement 
the school was removed to a newly erected barn upon the farm 
of Powell Carpenter in the western part of the village. Miss 
Garbutt became the wife of William Reed. 

Two years after the burning of the log house a small frame 
school house was erected on the North road upon the farm of 
Reuben Heath, midway between the farm buildings and the 
tracks of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg R. R. 



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In 1819, this house proving inadequate to accomodate all who 
desired admission, the alternative was presented of either enlarg- 
ing the house or of building anew. 

At a public meeting called to take action upon the subject a 
resolution was adopted to build a house of larger dimensions, 
and in a more central location. The site selected was a lot on 
the west side of Rochester Street, opposite the present residence 
of Edwin A. Smith. This house was erected the following year, 
1 820. Among the teachers in this building were Elisha Cox, 
Samuel D. Simons, Wm. N. Reed, Lanklan Catana and our towns- 
man William H. Harmon. This house was abandoned for school 
purposes in 1842, and converted to other use until 1862, when it 
was demolished. 

In 1 842 the east half of the brick house on East Third Street 
was built. Two years later No. 4, a small district in the western 
part of the village, was taken into No. 1 , and No. 1 on the 
North road was divided, the western part annexed to the Garbutt 
district and the eastern part, including the schoolhouse, to the 
Scottsville district. In 1844 an addition equal in dimensions to 
the original structure was added on the west. The house in No. 
1 was taken down, the bricks of which it was composed brought 
to the village and used in the construction of the walls of the 
addition. No. I 's house thus enlarged afforded space for a hall, 
a library and three large rooms to accomodate the departments of 
the school, proving sufficient for the wants of the district during 
the next quarter of a century. 

In 1 868 District No. 2, lying south of the Oatka, after a spirited 
and somewhat embittered contest, was, against the protest of its 
people, brought into and made a part of District No. 1 . The 
following year the present commodious brick structure on Brown's 
Avenue was erected at a cost of $15,000, and the house on East 
Third Street sold and converted into a dwelling house. During 
the occupancy of the old house the school attained a high reputa- 
tion, the scholars for a rapid advance in their studies and the 
teachers for possessing the faculty of imparting instruction to their 
pupils. The principals who had charge of the school in the old 
brick house were: Asa Baker, Carmi C. Olds, A. M. Watson, 



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Nathan A. Woodard, Morris W. Townsend, Alfred McPhail, Mr. 
Willey, John E. Niles, Sheppard Gleason, D. C. Rumsey, William 
E. Cook. Franklyn R. Garlock, Reuben Huff, Sidney A. Luce and 
Paraclyte Sheldon. Five of this number entered the Methodist 
ministry, three the profession of law, two that of medicine ; one 
became a journalist, one enlisted and died in the service of his 
country, and one has never forsaken the calling of his youth but 
is still imparting instruction to the young. But four of the num- 
ber, viz: Cook, Garlock, Huff and Luce are living. The list of 
lady teachers in the old house is incomplete. Among the 
number were : Mary Thorn, Mary J. Halsted, Ann Buttolph, 
Sarah Tarbox, Anna Nixon, Jerusha Clark, Sarah Allen, Alevia 
Burdick, Helen Hurlburt, Clarinda Chapin, Mrs. Willey, Mary J. 
Mc Kelvey, Minerva Cutler, Kate Kiley, Theresa Zimmerman. 

The present school edifice was accepted and occupied in 1870. 
The first principal in the new house was a Mr. Phitts, whose term 
of service wasof short duration. He was followed by Mr. Comfort, 
whose reign was still more brief and the first year closed with the 
school in charge of its third principal, Arthur G. Slocum. Mr. 
Slocum's successors have been John N. Drake, W. C. Simpson, 
Isaiah Hudnut, William Carter, Elmer J. Smith, John J. Morris, 
George V. Jennings, S. A. Crowder, Philip B. Strong, Merrit Abell, 
J.T. Pangburn, F. H. Brown, B. G. Eells, and the present principal 
in charge, Herbert T. Comfort. Mr. Charles Goldsmith taught in 
the third grade in 1879-80. 

Mr. Brown's administration extended over a period of sixteen 
years, being equal to that of the combined service of his fourteen 
predecessors. Messrs. Drake, Simpson, Jennings, Crowder and 
Pangburn are dead. Slocum is president of a college in Kalama- 
zoo, Michigan ; Carter is the present County Judge of Livingston 
County; Brown is at the head of a large high school at East 
Syracuse, N. Y. 

The large addition to the present school house upon the south 
side of the main building, for the library and class rooms, was 
erected in 1898 at a cost of $5,000. 

The lady teachers in the present house have been Helen Smith, 



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Eleanor M. Dorr, Libbie Mc Naughton, Marion E. Croft, Lizzie 
Wallace, Julia Dutton, Minnie Darrow, Sarah A. Clark, Harriet 
Gates, Sara A. Goheen, Hattie M. Sheffer, Jennie Hansey, Beulah 
E. Mordoff, Mary Reed, Fanny Mills, Emily Mc Nair, Leora Reed, 
Gertrude Wi Hard, Mabel Wheeler, Elsie Beckwith, Emeline Moore, 
Lillian C. Chase, Grace Boyd, Bessie A. Hughes, Lovina W. 
Snyder, Abbey Comstock, Maud Wilder, Caroline Lester, Clara 
Henderson, Marion Barnes, Dora E. Covey, Avis L. Slocum, 
E. S. Boardman, Mae Tabor, Annette Weeks, Anna J. O'Brien, 
Anna Dailey, Frances A. Shadbolt, Maud Miller, Jessamine 
Chapman, Clara Grey, Ruth B. Casey, Agnes Hogan, Bertha 
Greene, Agnes E. Winchester and Clara Moseley. 

From 1830 to 1845 Garbutt was in possession of two schools. 
The building opposite the store was used for the primary depart- 
ment, while a school for more advanced classes was held in the 
church building on the cemetery ground. 

The few yet living who attended this latter school speak of it 
in the highest praise, and claim that it was unexcelled by any 
school in town. They name with pride the list of their instruct- 
ors, viz: Zachariah Garbutt, Lanklan Catana, Alexander Mann, 
John D. Church, Henry J. Raymond and William H. Harmon. 

That the school ranked high is unquestioned but unfortunately 
it was doomed to share the destiny of the hamlet in which it was 
located. Garbutt was then a thriving village, but a score of years 
later it went into a decline that it was impossible to arrest. 
However, now that Garbutt has renewed its activity, with the 
prospect of an increase in trade and population, the school will 
share its prosperity and may retrieve its former glory. 

The first school house in the village of Mumford was a small 
frame structure erected in the early twenties. It was located on 
the west side of William Street nearly opposite the residence of 
William C. Page. In 1 832 a one-story stone structure was erected 
on the north side of Dakin Street, midway between the present 
school building and Main Street. At first it consisted of but a 
single room, afterward it was enlarged and two departments 
created. It was in this long, low, unpretentious structure, that 
James B. Covey, Lanklan Catana, Samuel D. Simons, Reuben D. 



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Jones and the late D. D. S. Brown wielded the birchen rod, and 
piloted their pupils through the mazes of the multiplication table. 
The pupils yet living who attended school in the old stone house, 
cherish the memory of their instructors and speak in terms of 
commendation of the efficiency and thoroughness of their work. 

Brown became clerk of the County of Monroe and Jones Super- 
intendent of schools of Rochester. None of the teachers in the 
old stone house are living. Catana died in Wyoming County 
many years ago. Simons died in California ; Brown in Scottsville 
in 1887; Jones in Rochester in 1904. 

The present commodious brick school house in Mumford was 
erected in 1 860. The residents of the village claim that the 
school of the present day is vastly superior to that of the olden 
time, that with better text books, improved methods of instruction 
and various new appliances, they are in possession of a school of 
which any village in the county might justly take pride. 

Three of the teachers of the Wheatland schools became Lieuten- 
ant Governor of the State; Daniel S. Dickinson, Sanford E. Church, 
and Henry J. Raymond. Dickinson taught in No. 5 on the North 
Road at the center of the town. Church taught on the same road 
farther east, in what was then No. 10, in a brick house on the 
farm of Major John Mc Vean. Raymond taught in Garbuttsville. 
Dickinson was Attorney General of the State and United States 
Senator; Church was Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals ; 
Raymond was Speaker of Assembly and Member of Congress. 
He founded the New York Times, an able and widely circulated 
journal, through the columns of which he exerted a potent 
influence over the legislation of the State and Nation. 

Prior to the year 1843 the schools of each town were under 
the supervision of a board of three, elected by the people, known 
as " Commissioners of Common Schools." Under this law 

Wheatland's schools were served by the most prominent residents 
of the town, viz : Powell Carpenter, Theron Brown, Freeman 
Edson, William Garbutt, David McVean, Duncan Mc Vean, 
E. H. S. Mumford, Elisha Harmon, Allen T. Lacy, Thomas Faulk- 
ner, Lewis Goodrich, Peter Mc Naughton and Samuel Wood. 

In 1843 the system was changed to a single officer known as 



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" Town Superintendent of Common Schools." While this law 
was in operation the duties of the office were discharged by 
Joslyn Hutchinson, Wm. G. Lacy, D. D. S. Brown, Asher Bennett, 
Nathan A. Woodward and Morris W. Townsend. 

In 1856 the form of government was again changed by placing 
all the schools in each assembly district in charge of a single 
officer, a " School Commissioner," who was expected to devote 
his entire time for their benefit. The only residents of Wheatland 
who have filled this office were Franklin R. Garlock, who was 
elected for a single term, and G. Fort Slocum, who was appointed 
by Judge Fuller to fill out the unexpired term of Allen J. Ketchum, 
deceased. 

In addition to its public Schools Wheatland has been in pos- 
session of various others. In 1 824 the residents of the village of 
Scottsville and of the surrounding country, in order to give their 
children the advantages of a more advanced grade of studies 
than were at that day taught in the common schools, by voluntary 
contribution purchased in the western part of the village a site 
and erected thereon a two-story brick building for an Academy 
or high school. This was placed in charge of the Rev. Dr. John 
Mulligan, a Scotch Presbyterian clergyman, a man of ability, 
industry and tact, and under his administration the school was 
well attended and attained a fair degree of success. 

Mr. Mulligan's successor in the school was Joseph A. Eastman, 
a young lawyer, who after leaving the school practiced his pro- 
fession in this village. 

After the school had been in operation several years neighbor- 
ing villages, which hitherto had contributed to its support, were 
now sustaining institutions of a similar character in their immedi- 
ate vicinity, consequently the attendance decreased and the 
school continued to decline until the year 1832, when it was 
finally abandoned. The property passed into private hands and 
was converted to other use. 

During nearly the entire time this building was used for the 
school it was on Sunday occupied by the Presbyterian Church 
Society, of this village, as a house of worship. This building of 



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four score years, bereft of one-half of its upper story, is still 
standing, retains its early name, and when mentioned by the elder 
residents is spoken of as the " Old Academy." 

The two-story brick building at Wheatland Centre, now occu- 
pied by Frank Kingsbury, was in the early thirties built for the 
purpose of a high school, and used as such for the brief period of 
three or four years when it was discontinued. It never had as 
large an attendance, never acquired the reputation, and left a 
feebler impress upon the public mind of its existence than did its 
prototype, the Scottsville Academy. 

In the spring of the year 1846 upon the farm of General 
Rawson Harmon, now occupied by Wm. H. Garbutt, was started 
what was advertised as the " Western New York Agricultural 
School." The proprietors and faculty of this institution were Lee 
and Harmon. Professor Daniel Lee, editor of the " Genesee 
Farmer," an agricultural paper published in Rochester, N. Y., was 
to have charge of the theoretical part, while Harmon was to give 
instruction in the practical work of plowing and sowing, of 
reaping and mowing so effectually that a class of scientific agri- 
culturalists could be graduated each year. The expense to the 
pupil for room, board and tuition was one hundred dollars per 
year. About twenty pupils were in attendance during the summer 
of '46. The future prospects of the school were not encouraging 
and application was made to the Legislature for an appropriation 
in its behalf, which failed to receive favorable action. The State 
was then asked to take possession of the school making it a State 
institution. This request was also declined and in the spring of 
1847 the school was removed to Ellwanger & Barry's nurseries, 
south of Rochester, Mr. Barry taking the position vacated by 
Gen. Harmon. But this plant was of too feeble a growth to bear 
transplanting. The rich nursery soil when applied to the culture 
of this institution, was found to have no advantage over a 
Wheatland farm. The first frost of Autumn put an end to its 
existence. 

In addition to those mentioned, Wheatland has had various 
primary, select and parochial schools, which probably answered 
the purpose of organization, but all of which were local in char- 
acter and influence. 



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These schools in our town have ceased to exist, for the simple 
reason that there is no longer any occasion for their existence, 
while the public schools, not only of Wheatland, but of the 
State at large, have from year to year steadily grown in strength 
and efficiency, and are occupying a higher and more exalted 
position than at any former period of their history. 



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CHURCHES. 



The first church organization in Wheatland and the first in 
the territory lying between the Genesee and Niagara Rivers was 
formed in the log school house upon the Creek Road March 4th, 
1805. Duncan Mc Pherson, Donald Anderson and Donald 
McKenzie were elected ruling elders. Rev. Jedediah Chapman, 
of Geneva, officiated. It was of Presbyterian denomination. 
( See Hotchkin's History of Western New York, pp 78 & 79. ) 
Two years later, when this society got ready to erect a house of 
worship, it was located in the village of Caledonia. 

BELCODA. 

The " Baptist Church of Wheatland, " located at Belcoda, was 
organized in 1811 with twelve members, viz: Rawson Harmon, 
Jirah Blackmer, Benjamin Irish, Andrew G. Cone, Henry Martin, 
Lydia Harmon, Mary Martin, William Lacy, William Welch, 
Joseph Douglass, Joseph and Polly Tucker. Their first elder was 
Rev. Solomon Brown and they worshiped in a log school house. 
The date of the erection of their first frame church is uncertain, 
probably about 1 820. It was built in the old style with square 
pews and an high pulpit. 

In 1845 the church edifice was remodeled, its pews and desk 
conforming to modern usage. When completed, but before 
rededication, it was destroyed by fire. By this calamity, though 
severe, the people were not disheartened, but going immediately 
at work soon placed upon the old foundation a new edifice. 

For two score years after its organization this society increased 
in membership and in wealth until it became one of the strongest 
connected with that denomination. The erection of the Baptist 
churches in the villages of Mumford and Clifton in 1852 drew 
heavily upon the membership of the Mother Church and from 
this period it went into a rapid decline. Services were held at 
irregular intervals and finally ceased altogether. After remaining 
idle for some years the church edifice was sold to a neighboring 
farmer, taken down and removed. 



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Elder Solomon Browns successors in charge of the Belcoda 
Church were Eli Stone, Aristarchus Willy, Horace Griswold, John 
Middleton, Daniel Eldridge, Gibbon Williams, H. K. Stimson, 
William W. Everts, Austin Harmon and supplies from the 
Rochester Theological Seminary. 

THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF WHEATLAND. 

Mrs. Isaac Scott, who settled here in 1 790, stated in after life 
that she resided here ten years before she had an opportunity to 
attend any religious service. In the opening years of the Nine- 
teenth Century occasional services were held in private residences, 
in a new barn, or in any vacant room that could be had. Upon 
the completion of the school house on the west side of Rochester 
Street south of Alexander Hannah's residence in 1820, the Pres- 
byterians and Methodists held union meetings in that building 
as supplies could be obtained. 

In March 1822 in this school house was formed the "First 
Presbyterian Society of Wheatland" with eleven members. Isaac 
I. Lewis, Freeman Edson, John Colt, Daniel Van Antwerp and 
Philip Garbutt were elected Elders. Its first Board of Trustees 
were Clark Hall, Abraham Hanford, Isaac I. Lewis, Stephen 
Warren and Ebenezer Skinner. 

Upon the completion of the Academy building on Caledonia 
Avenue in 1 824 they occupied that structure as a house of wor- 
ship, the Rev. Dr. Mulligan, their pastor, divided his time between 
the Academy building and the new church in Garbuttsville. 
( This Garbuttsville Church was situated on the hill where the 
cemetery is; it was afterward used as a School house and torn 
down about 1856.) 

This arrangement continued until 1 83 1 when the Society erected 
a frame structure 42 x 54 feet on Second Street facing south, at 
the Northern end of Church Street, before Brown's Avenue was 
opened. 

The pastors who ministered to the spiritual wants of the Society 
while worshiping in the school house on Rochester Street, and 
in the Academy building ( perhap not in the order named ) were 
Chauncey Cook, John Mulligan, William F. Carry, Alvin Parmlee 
and Jacob Hart. 



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The Society occupied their first church edifice for twenty- 
five years. On Sunday afternoon February 3, 1856, it was con- 
sumed by fire. 

The pastors of the Society during this period were Lewis 
Cheeseman, Eli S. Hunter, Selden Haynes, Linus W. Billington, 
Milton Buttolph and Dugald D. McColl. 

Immediately after the fire the Society accepted the offer of 
the Methodist Episcopal Society to join them in worship until 
the completion of a house of their own. This arrangement was 
entered into and carried out through the year to the satisfaction of 
both parties. Meantime work upon the present house of worship 
was pushed with vigor and completed the following Spring, and 
on May 7th, 1857, it was dedicated. The following have served 
as pastors since the occupancy of the present church edifice: 
Dugald D. McColl, Thomas A. Weed, D. H. Laverty, G. B. F. Hal- 
lock, Edward Bristol and the present occupant, Dwight L. Parsons. 

THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF SCOTTSVILLE. 

In the year 1838 for some real or fancied grievance the 
pastor, two of the elders and nearly forty members withdrew 
from- the First Presbyterian Church of Wheatland and formed the 
First Presbyterian Church of Scottsville. John Colt, Isaac I. Lewis, 
Jonathan or John ? P. Sill and Warren Smith were elected elders. 
This society built and worshiped in the front part of the building 
yet standing upon the west side of Church Street, and occupied 
as a produce warehouse by J. C. McVean, Jr. After a separate 
existence of twenty-one years these two Presbyterian bodies 
were reunited in 1859. 

The pastors of this church were Lewis Cheeseman, Edwin 
Bronson, Richard McKay, Henry R. Doolittle and John Jones. 

THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF 
SCOTTSVILLE. 

The Methodist Episcopal Society of Scottsville, though not 
the first to perfect a church organization, yet was the first to 
erect a church edifice in the village. They continued to occupy 
the school house on Rochester Street until 1828 depending upon 



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chance supplies to fill the pulpit. In 1827 a church organization 
was formed and Rev. John Copeland called as their first pastor, 
and the following were elected trustees, Joel Hunter, Henry 
Tarbox, John Harroun, Jonathan Babcock, and John Grunendike. 

It was voted to build a church of brick 32 x 44 feet, on the 
east side of Church Street. The following year, 1 828, this was 
accomplished at an expense of $2,000.00. Powell Carpenter, 
Dr. E. G. Munn and Joseph Cox, none of whom were members 
of the Society, were liberal contributers to the erection fund 
and in the year of its building the two first named were members 
of the Board of Trustees. The first public service held in the 
new house was in February 1 829. 

In 1870, under the superintendence of Rev. E. S. Furman, the 
church edifice was thoroughly remodeled, an extension to its 
length was added to the east, new entrances were made in front, 
the gallery was removed, the floor was raised three feet, it was 
reseated, stained glass windows were installed, and a new desk, 
making it essentially a new structure, at a cost of but little over 
$3,000.00. 

Mr. Copeland's successors down to the year 1 840 ( perhaps 
not in the order here given ) were James Hemingway, John 
Weiley, Benijah Williams, Dr. Bartlett, Orrin F. Comfort, and 
Seymour A. Baker. The following is a list of pastors from 1841 
to date: 



J. B. Langdon 1841. 

O. F. Comfort 1842. 

A. D. Wilber 1843. 

Chauncy S. Baker '44, '65, & '66. 



E. S. Furman "64, '68 & '69. 

Griffin Smith 1867. 

John A. Copeland 70, '85, & '86. 



James Durham 
W. B. Slaughter 
E. M. Buck 
Geo. W. Terry 
Hiram H. Hood 
John H. Wallace 
Thomas W. Eaton 
D. B. Lawton 
W. C. Willing 



1845. 

1846. 

1847. 
'48 & '49. 

1850. 

1851. 
"52 &'53. 

1854. 

1855. 



Samuel Millard 
George W. Coe 
O. B. Sparrow 
J. W. Sanborn 
Thomas E. Bell 
H. Vosburg 
G. W. Kittenger 
W. S. Tuttle 
J. V. Lowell 
L. D. Chase 



1871. 

1872. 
73, & 74. 

1875. 

76, 77&78. 

79 & '80. 

1881. 

1882. 
"83 & '84. 
'87 to '91. 



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S. C. Smith '56 & '57. T. F. Parker '92 & '93. 

Samuel Luckey 1858. G. S. Robinson '94, '95 & '96. 

Charles Eddy '59 & '60. G. W. Gibson "97 to 1901. 

David Nichols 1861. J.B.Arnold 1902, '03 & '04 

George Markham 1862. R. W. Copeland 1905 to '07. 

S. C. Church 1863. 

THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS. 

During the first decade of the Nineteenth Century there 
settled in the eastern part of Wheatland many families, members 
of a religious body known among themselves as Friends, but by 
world's people called Quakers. They met at first for worship in 
private houses, but receiving accessions to their number by 
families moving in, they in 1820 erected a frame meeting house 
on the south road east of Thomas Stokoe's place. They wor- 
shiped together in perfect harmony until 1 827 when a man named 
Elias Hicks came preaching a new doctrine. His views were 
accepted by one-half of the Society and rejected by the other. 
A separation took place, those who adhered to the old faith 
withdrew and built a stone meeting house farther east, near the 
River Road. Both parties retained the name of " Friends " but 
by outsiders were designated as the Orthodox and the Hicksites. 

In 1852 the Orthodox removed to the road farther south, build- 
ing a frame house near Frank Cox's, while the Hicksites moved 
into the stone house just vacated. Meetings were held with more 
or less regularity by both societies for a series of years, but it was 
apparent to a casual observer that their existence was but a ques- 
tion of time. It was noticeable that their congregations were 
composed almost wholly of middle aged and elderly people. 
The young were absent, somehow they had learned that in the 
matter of dress there were more attractive colors than drab; some 
had acquired the habit of attending meetings where music was a 
part of the service ( sometimes the better part ) and where the 
wealing of a red ribbon was not regarded as a mortal sin. 

The demise of these societies was so gradual and so quiet that 
it would be difficult to fix the date of their departure. Let no 
one infer from their extinction that the lives of their members 



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were spent in vain. Far from it. Their sterling integrity, their 
habits of industry and economy, their love of freedom and justice, 
have left an impression not only upon their descendants but 
upon every one with whom they came in contact. 

GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF SCOTTSVILLE. 

Scottsville's youngest church organization, Grace Episcopal 
Church, was formed in St. Joseph's Hall January 12th, 1885. 
Rev. Henry Anstice presiding, the following vestry were elected: 
Wardens: Selden S. Brown, S. Hobart Dorr; Vestrymen: D. D. S. 
Brown, James H. Kelly, James B. Lewis, Homer L. S. Hall, 
M. C. Mordoff, G. Fort Slocum and Seward Scofield. 

D. D. S. Brown's offer of a site for a church upon Brown's 
Avenue was accepted May 14th, 1885; ground broken for the 
church edifice June I, 1885; corner stone laid June 27, 1885; 
church edifice completed same year, 1885; first Sunday service 
December 18, 1885; church edifice consecrated July 25, 1891. 
The following have served as rectors: J. Dudley Ferguson, Dr. 
James Roy, Francis Gould, Arthur Davies and Richard C. Searing. 

THE CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION 
OF SCOTTSVILLE. 

In 1 84 1 -42 the Catholics residing in Scottsville and vicinity, 
desirous of having some place of worship, rented the brick house 
east of and adjoining their present church for that purpose. 
Services were at first held one Sabbath in each month, priests 
from Rochester usually officiating. Their rooms proved too 
contracted to accomodate all who desired to attend and in 1 843 
Patrick Rafferty and his associates purchased the property they 
were occupying with the view of erecting thereon a suitable 
church edifice. Work, however, upon this project was delayed. 
Ten years elapsed before ground was broken for this purpose. 
The corner stone was laid by Bishop Timon August 15, 1853, 
and the foundation wall completed. The following year the walls 
were reared and the edifice, 40 x 80 feet, so far completed that 
services were held therein. The addition in rear of the church, 
20 x 30 feet, was built during the pastorate of Father O'Donohue. 
Following are the names of those who have administered to the 



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wants of the parish, viz: Edward O'Connor, 1 848; Michael Walsh, 
I 849; James McGlew, 1852; Richard J.Story, 1856; J. V. O'Dono- 
hue, 1858; M. J. Loughlin, 1868; S. A. Mahar, 1869; E.J. McDon- 
ald, 1870; L. J. Miller, 1871; J. J. Buckley, 1872; M. M. Meagher, 
1873; M.T. Madden, 1874; T. L. Rossiter, 1877; G. J. Eisler, 
I 88 1 ; and the present priest in charge, Rev. L. A. Lambert, 1 890. 

Father Lambert's service in point of time exceeds that of any of 
his predecessors, covering a period of seventeen years. 



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BEULAH. 



" In 1 798 a company of emigrants from Perthshire, Scotland, 
emigrated to America, landing at New York and coming as far 
west as Johnstown, Montgomery County, halted there to determine 
on some permanent location. Mr. Williamson, ( agent for an 
English land company,) hearing of the arrival of his Countrymen, 
made a journey to see them. He found them poor in purse but 
rich in courage, perseverance and industry. He offered them a 
favorite location in the neighborhood of the Big Springs, now 
Caledonia — land at $3.00 per acre payable in wheat at 6 shillings 
per bushel. In March 1 799, while there was yet sleighing the 
Scotch adventurers came from Johnstown to the Big Springs." 

The foregoing is a quotation from the " History of the Pioneer 
Settlement of Phelps and Gorhams' Purchase and Morris' 
Reserve," etc by O. Turner. 

In the fall of the same year they were joined by their country- 
men, John Mc Vean, John Mc Pherson, John Anderson and 
Duncan Anderson, all single men but Mc Vean, and the next year 
they were joined by Donald Mc Pherson, Donald Anderson, 
Alexander Thompson and their families. These whose names 
have been given, crossed the ocean in the same ship and were 
the ancestors of the congregation of Beulah Church. All these 
men without exception were agriculturists and they settled in the 
Valley of Allan's Creek between Mumford and Le Roy, where 
the combination of stream, forest and rocky hillside was to them 
the counterpart of their native Highland Glens. 

For the first fifty years of the nineteenth century these families 
and their descendants, with others who came later, attended the 
stone church in Caledonia, but when the church building was 
outgrown by the increase in population, a colony was formed in 
the northwestern section of the settlement and the church was 
built in 1851 during the pastorate of the Rev. Donald McLaren 
of the Stone Church in Caledonia. He presented the new church 
with a Bible bearing the following inscription on the fly-leaf: 
" To the Associate Reformed Congregation to worship in the 



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House of God at Beulah, still forming a part of the flock which I 
have in charge, in token of my gratitude for their uniform kind- 
ness to me, of my great affection for them in the Lord, and my 
cordial acquiescence in their contemplated organization as a 
distinct church, I present this Bible on the day on which this 
House was first opened for public worship. Donald C. Mc Laren. 
Caledonia, January 1, 1852." 

At its dedication the church was named Beulah Church by 
Captain Thomas Faulkner. It was a name of good omen as there 
never has been a quarrel in the church since it was organized. 
It has numbered over twenty families of the Mc Pherson clan, 
beside McMartins, McVeans, Menzies, Mallocks, Walkers, 
Brodies, Blues, Campbells, Andersons, Tennents, Christies, 
Hebbards, Vallances and Murrays. The church has produced 
one doctor of divinity, Rev. S. J. Mc Pherson, of Lawrenceville, 
N. J., two lawyers, Judge Hebbard and Herbert Menzie of 
Rochester, still land owners in Beulah, six physicians, Dr. R. J. 
Menzie of Caledonia and five physicians of the Mc Pherson 
name, four of whom are living. 

Fifty years of prosperity and usefulness were allotted to this 
organization which still exists but is greatly reduced in numbers 
by deaths and removals. The Scotch Emigration of 1 800 seems 
to have given place to that from Ireland half a Century later. 



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POST OFFICES. 

m i m 

Although Wheatland was early settled it was late in acquiring 
postal facilities. For many years while Canandaigua was in 
receipt of a weekly mail from the east, there was no post office 
or post route west of that village. Mail destined for this locality 
was obtained at irregular and uncertain intervals, by persons who 
were called to the county seat by business or court duty. In 1812 
a semi-weekly mail route was established from Canandaigua to 
Batavia and a post office opened at Caledonia. 

For the next eight years mail for Scottsville was obtained by 
chance opportunity, or by sending a boy on horseback to 
Caledonia for it. In 1820 a post office was opened in Scottsville 
and a tri-weekly mail route established from Rochester to York, 
Livingston Co., the mail going up and returning upon alternate 
days. At a later period, for a brief time, a four horse mail coach 
ran over this line but was soon discontinued. 

In 1853 upon the completion of the Erie R. R. between 
Rochester and Avon, a daily mail was received at the Scottsville 
Station from the former city, and in 1874 when the cars com- 
menced running from Rochester to Le Roy, upon the State Line 
Road, a morning and evening mail was received, an arrangement 
which continued until recently. At the present time five mails 
arrive and depart daily and two Rural Free Delivery Routes 
start from the Scottsville office. 

Below is a list of the Wheatland offices, the names of the 
Post Masters and the dates of their commissions: 

SCOTTSVILLE, MONROE COUNTY, N. Y. 

Established. Freeman Edson, May 20, 1820. 

Ira Carpenter, Oct. 19, 1829. 

Wm. G. Lacy, Apr. 19, 1849. 

Dyer D. S. Brown, Apr. 10, 1853. 

David B. Lewis, Sept. 29, 1855. 

Benjamin B. Carpenter, Sept. 29, 1860. 

Otto Bennett, Mar. 14, 1861. 



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John Croft, Dec. 22, 1871. 

Earll H. Slocum, Aug. 12, 1875. 

Otto Bennett, Dec. 14, 1877. 

Earll H. Slocum, Jan. 20, 1878. 

Otto Bennett, Jan. 29, 1 880. 

Bridget Scanlan, May 1 3, 1 886. 

Earll H. Slocum, June 1 6, 1 890. 

Robert Walsh, Apr. 7, 1894. 

William Purcell, Apr. 11, 1898. 

WHEATLAND, MONROE COUNTY, N. Y. 

Established. Clark Hall, Apr. 5, 1826. 

Benjamin Bissell, Sept. 7, 1847. 

JohnMurdock, Sept. 18, 1848. 

Discontinued. Sept. 20, 1858. 

MUMFORD, MONROE COUNTY, N. Y. 

Established. 



Duncan Mc Naughton, 


June 20, 


1844. 


Renselear N. Havens, 


June 9, 


1849. 


Duncan Mc Naughton, 


July 15, 


1853. 


James McQueen, 


Mar. 14, 


1860. 


Harriet E. Maynard, 


May 7, 


1872. 


Ezra A. Price, 


May 25, 


1877. 


Charles Mc Naughton, 


Mar. 20, 


1882, 


Chester D. Woodard, 


Nov. 9, 


1885, 


John E. Harvey, 


Sep. 15, 


1889, 


William Buckley, 




1893 


James Freeman, 


June 1 1, 


1897 



GARBUTT, MONROE COUNTY, N. Y. 

Established. Harlan P. Wheeler, May 3, 1880. 

Ezra Price, June 22, 1882. 

Duncan Mc Queen, June 2 1 , 1883. 



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TOWN ORGANIZATION AND 
CIVIL CHANGES. 



In 1 789 ( the year of Sheffer's settlement here ) Ontario County, 
taken from Montgomery, was organized. It included within its 
border all territory of the state lying west of the pre-emption line, 
one mile east of Geneva. Eight years later, in 1 797, that portion 
of Ontario lying west of the Genesee was organized as the town 
of Northampton. The first election in the new town was held 
April 4th, 1 797 at the Allan Cabin on the flats, then occupied by 
Peter Sheffer, Jr. Josiah Fish was elected Supervisor. The other 
officers were Eli Granger, Peter Sheffer, Joseph Morgan, Jeremiah 
Olmsted, Gideon King, Hinds Chamberlain, Simon King, Chris- 
topher Dugan and Isaac Scott. These men all resided within the 
radius of a mile from the river, but were scattered from Cana- 
waugus to the Lake. Four were from King's, later " Hanford's 
Landing," three from Scottsville, and one each from Dugan's 
Creek, Chili line and mouth of Black Creek. 

It will be noticed that Rochester is unrepresented in this list 
but it had a valid excuse. It was more than fifteen years after 
this election was held before Rochester was given a place on the 
map. 

Some idea of the density of population in different localities 
maybe inferred from the statement that in the war of 1814 what 
now constitutes the town of Wheatland was, upon twenty-four 
hours notice able to send seventy-five men to Niagara for the 
defense of Fort Erie, while the town of Gates, which included 
that portion of Rochester lying west of the River, could muster 
only one-half of that number to defend the mouth of the Genesee 
from the threatened attack of the British fleet commanded by 
Commodore Sir James Yeo. 

In 1 800 the first state tax was levied upon property west of the 
Genesee. The tax roll contains but one hundred and fifty names 
including land companies and non-residents. The following 
names from the roll were living in this immediate vicinity, viz: 



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Hinds Chamberlain, Christopher Dugan, Cyrus Douglass, Elisha 
Farwell, George Goodhue, Reuben Heath, Christopher Laybourn, 
Joseph Morgan, John Mc Naughton, Stephen Peabody, Peter 
Sheffer, Isaac Scott and Jacob Schoonover. 

The town of Northampton remained a part of Ontario County 
for five years, during which time its residents went to Canandai- 
gua, the county seat, to discharge jury duty, to place on record 
the transfer of property and to procure what mail might be in the 
Post Office for persons living in this locality. 

In I 802 Genesee County, with Batavia as the county seat, was 
organized. Its boundaries -were identical with those of the town 
of Northampton, ( then a part of Ontario County, ) which it 
replaced. Its territory was divided into four towns. A line was 
run due west from the Genesee Rapids - the line that now sepa- 
rates Chili and Riga from Gates and Ogden. The Eastern terri- 
tory north of this line retained the name of Northampton while 
the eastern portion south of the line was called Southampton. 
The northwestern portion became the town of Batavia, while the 
name Leicester was given to the southwestern part. 

The first panel of Grand Jurors summoned in Genesee County 
contains the following names from that part of Southampton now 
known as Wheatland, viz: Elisha Farwell, Peter Sheffer, Hugh 
Mc Dermit and John Mc Naughton. 

The following is from the Court Record on file in the Clerk's 
Office of Genesee County: 

" ( Batavia, Genesee County, N. Y. 
Court Com. Pleas, June term, 1810.) 

Application of John Garbutt, William Reed and William 
Armstrong praying to be admitted as naturalized citizens of the 
United States, having been residents of this state the required 
length of time. 

Application granted by Court of Common Pleas of Genesee 
County June 12, 1810." 

In I 806 the name of the town was changed from Southampton 
to Caledonia, and thus remained until the formation of the counties 



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of Monroe and Livingston in 1821, when an east and west line 
was drawn through Caledonia and that portion lying south of the 
line, retaining its old name, was taken into Livingston County, 
while the part lying north of the line, first as Inverness but sixty 
days later by an act of the Legislature changed to Wheatland, 
was taken into Monroe County. 

The first town meeting in Wheatland was held at the public 
house of Powell Carpenter in Scottsville, April 3d, 1821, when 
the following officers were elected: John Garbutt, Supervisor; 
Levi Lacy, Town Clerk; William Reed, Jirah Blackmer and 
William Garbutt, Assessors; Thomas Stokoe, Collector; Rawson 
Harmon and Peter Sheffer, Overseers of the Poor; Joseph Cox, 
Clark Hall and Ephraim Blackmer, Commissioners of Highways; 
Freeman Edson, Thomas Lowry and Jirah Blackmer, Commis- 
sioners of Common Schools; George Wood, Sylvester Harmon 
and Peter Mc Pherson, Inspectors, and Caleb Calkins and Chester 
Savage, Constables. 

COUNTY AND STATE OFFICES FILLED BY 
WHEATLAND MEN. 

In 1 840 William Garbutt was a presidential elector. Wheatland 
has furnished the County with two clerks, D. D. S. Brown 1859 
to 1862, and Henry D. Mc Naughton 1883 to 1886; and two 
County Treasurers, Samuel Scofield 1864 to 1867, and Alexander 
McVean 1879 to 1894. In 1906 Selden S. Brown was elected 
Surrogate for a term of six years. 

The Third Assembly District of Monroe County has been 
represented in the Legislature by John Garbutt in 1 829; John 
McVean in 1845; Elisha Harmon in 1849 and 1850; Volney P. 
Brown in 1870 and 1871; Philip Garbutt in 1884 and 1885 and 
Isaac W. Salyerds in 1901 and 1902; while the 29th Senatorial 
district, then comprising the counties of Monroe and Orleans, 
was represented by Donald Mc Naughton in 1888 to 1892. 



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OUR COUNTRY'S DEFENDERS. 



That the residents of Wheatland have ever been actuated by 
a spirit of patriotism is manifest by the voluntary tender of their 
services upon every occasion when their country has required 
defenders. 

At the time of the separation of the American Colonies from 
Great Britain, Western New York was peopled only by the Seneca 
Indians. The few soldiers of the American Revolution whose 
remains lie mouldering in the cemetery at Belcoda, removed to 
this locality from the east after the close of that struggle. They 
are eight in number, viz: Rev. Solomon Brown, William Bingham, 
John Joslin, Rufus Hibbard, Comfort Smith, Samuel Stanhope, 
Israel Merriman and John Toms. The remains of Joseph 
Morgan were interred in the neglected cemetery on the River 
Road, a few rods north of the town line. 

The remains of Reuben Heath, a Soldier of the Revolution 
who fought at Bunker Hill, Roxbury Neck and Charlestown, 
Mass., in I 775, are buried in Lot No. 1 70, in Oatka Cemetery at 
Scottsville. He was from New Hampshire and was a member 
of Captain Hezekiah Hutchins* Company, of Colonel James 
Reed's Regiment. He was one of the early settlers in Wheat- 
land. ( See " Settlers prior to 1800. " ) 



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WAR OF 1812 - 1814. 



Upon the breaking out of hostilities between our Country 
and Great Britain in the War of 1812-1814, the settlers upon 
the northern frontier were kept in a state of anxiety and alarm by 
the repeated attacks of the enemy upon Sacketts Harbor, Oswego 
and Buffalo. 

One Sabbath morning in August 1814a message was received 
from Niagara stating that Fort Erie, opposite Black Rock, then in 
possession of the American forces, was threatened with an 
attack and soliciting immediate aid. This dispatch was read 
from the pulpit at the morning service of the Baptist Society, then 
worshiping in the log school house at Belcoda, and notice given 
that those who were willing to volunteer in the Fort's defense 
were requested to meet that afternoon at Garbuttsville. 

Incredible as it may appear this call was responded to by 
seventy-five men, being nearly the entire adult, able-bodied male 
population of the territory now embraced within the borders of 
Wheatland. On the following morning, without effecting a 
company organization, but with such arms as could be collected, 
they set out on their march to Buffalo. On September 1st they 
were enrolled and accepted in the service of the United States. 

COMPANY ROLL. 

Captain, Levi Lacy. 

Lieutenant, Ward Smith. 

Ensign, Timothy Doty, 

John Garbutt. 
Servants Ephraim Blackmer. 

5ergeantS ' P. W. Cady. 

William Gray. 

Robert Budd. 

Thomas Armstrong. 

Corporals, Ephraim Lacy. 

Hull Case. 
Jonathan Harris. 



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M 



usicians, 



John Harmon, fifer. 
Nathaniel Cobb, drummer. 



PRIVATES. 



Nathan Bassett. 
Ambrose Killam. 
Alpha Wheeler. 
Isaac Grant. 
Amasa Johnson. 
Hezekiah Higby. 
Reuben Jacquith. 
Abram B. T. Grant. 
Reuben Hurlburt. 
John Kelsa. 
Stephen Peabody. 
Daniel North. 
William Cox. 
Daniel Van Antwerp. 
Henry Gilman. 
Joshua Howell. 
James Lewis. 
John M. Goodhue. 
Reuben Hulbertson. 
Wm. P. Pentland. 



Jirah Blackmer. 
Bela Armstrong. 
Ezra Carpenter. 
Timothy Jackson, 
Jonathan Webb. 
Asa Jacquith. 
Philander Higby. 
Caleb Calkins. 
Andrew G. Cone. 
Joseph Shadock. 
Aaron Usher. 
Rawson Harmon, Jr. 
Thomas Shadbolt. 
Andrew Grey. 
Hugh Seeds. 
Ezra Brewster. 
John Johnson. 
Harvey Guthrie. 
Martin Sage. 
Philip Garbutt. 



William Johnson. 
William Darling. 
James Jones. 
Theron Brown. 
Ezra T. Cone. 
Jonathan Babcock. 
William Steadman. 
Thubal Lamb. 
Thomas E. Fletcher. 
Abram Sweet. 
William Garbutt. 
Daniel Grant. 
Benjamin Warren. 
Daniel Hetzler. 
Jason Peirce. 
Charles Killam. 
George Hetzler. 
Harley Hugh Sage. 
Stephen G. Peabody. 
George F. Hetzler. 



This company participated in the successful defense made to 
the attack upon the Fort September 23d, 1814. William Garbutt 
and Stephen Guy Peabody were wounded. Peabody and one 
other were made prisoners, taken to Montreal, and held in con- 
finement six months, when they were released and returned to 
their homes. The members of the company were afterward 
granted by the Government a warrant entitling them to 1 60 acres 
of public land and at a later period the surviving members were 
granted a pension. 

At this period, 1 8 1 2 - 1814, Wheatland was a part of the town 
of Caledonia. That the foregoing list is composed almost exclu- 
sively of Wheatland residents is accounted for by the fact that 



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another company was raised in Caledonia, commanded by 
Captain Robert McKay, under whom those living in the vicinity 
of the Big Spring enlisted. 

THE PATRIOT WAR, 1837-1838. 
The Scottsville Artillery Company. 

In 1819 or 1820 an Artillery company was organized in the 
village of Scottsville, a six pound field piece being furnished them 
by the State. Isaac I. Lewis, Simeon Sage, Abner Cushman, 
George Ensign, Daniel P. Hammond and Francis X. Beckwith 
were successively commandants of the company. 

During the trouble between our Country and Canada known 
as the " Patriot War " this company, then under the command of 
Captain F. X. Beckwith, was ordered by the Governor to Buffalo 
to aid in protecting that portion of our frontier. The company 
left Scottsville the last of December, 1837, via Rochester, where 
they took passage on open or platform cars on the Tonawanda 
Railroad, then just opened for business. It was a rough, bleak 
winter day, the wind sharp and piercing. Six hours were con- 
sumed in making the trip to Batavia, arriving there after dark, 
cold, tired and hungry. As Batavia was then the western term- 
inus of railroad transportation, the company marched from there 
to Buffalo. While upon the lines they performed camp and 
guard duty and after an absence of six weeks were discharged 
and returned to their homes. 

There is no roster of this company in existence. The Adjutant 
General's office at the State Capitol contains no record of it. 
The following list of thirty-three names out of the forty who 
obeyed the call were furnished from memory by Captain Beckwith 
and Hugh Mc Vean. 

OFFICERS. MUSICIANS. 

Captain, Francis X. Beckwith. Fife Major, Mark Hammond. 

1st. Lieut. John Hammond. 

2nd. ■ James F. Beckwith. pt S Theodore Wilber. 

1 st. Serjeant. Samuel Welch. t Chester Keys. 

2nd. ■ Gilbert T. Whitney. 

3rd. " James Wells. n Uohn Wilber. 

4th. ■ Paul Austin. Urummers, j Jasper Buck 



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Hugh Mc Vean. 
William Rogers. 
John Johnson. 
William Stewart. 
Archibald Robinson. 
Ezekiel Lard. 
Price Springstead. 



PRIVATES. 

James Savage. 
Henry Vosburg. 
Mace Lard. 
Roger Austin. 
William Huff. 
George Lampson. 
Caleb Peirce. 



Samuel Wood. 
John Whitney. 
James Salter. 
Erastus West. 
John A. Barker. 
Henry Tarbox. 
James Cox. 



The County of Monroe was represented in the Patriot War by 
a battalion of Artillery consisting of four companies, commanded 
by Colonel Joseph Wood, viz: 

Rochester, Captain Evan Evans. 

Brighton, " Amos Soper. 

Penfield, n Franklin Robb. 

Scottsville, " Francis X. Beckwith. 

The members of the Scottsville company were in after years 
rewarded by the General Government for their services by the 
presentation to each of a warrant good for forty acres of public 
land. 

THE SECOND FLORIDA WAR, 1835 - 1842. 
One resident of Wheatland took part in the Second Florida 
War against the Seminole Indians. This was Peter Sullivan who 
served five years in the Regular Army, in Co. G, 8th U. S. Infantry. 
He enlisted April 25, 1839 and was honorably discharged April 
24, 1844. He will be remembered by many of the older people 
of Scottsville by his erect military bearing. 

THE MEXICAN WAR, 1846. 

Wheatland's sole representative in the war with Mexico in 1 846 
was Peter Clark, of Scottsville, N. Y. He enlisted in Captain 
Caleb Wilder's Company of Rochester, the only one raised in the 
county for that struggle. He came out of that contest without a 
scratch, was honorably discharged, and returned to his home. 
Fifteen years afterward he enlisted in the Old 1 3th, the first 
regiment raised in the County of Monroe for the preservation of 
the Union, and was killed in the Battle of Fredericksburg 
December 13th, 1862. 



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THE CIVIL WAR, 1861 . 1865. 

In the war for the perpetuity of the Union there was no 
distinct company organization in the town and yet there were 
nearly two hundred men who responded to the several calls for 
volunteers. These men went into every branch of the service, 
Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery and the Navy, the greater part enlisting 
before large bounties were offered as an inducement. Of this 
number twenty were killed in battle or on picket duty; twenty-one 
were wounded; twenty-two were taken prisoners, of whom nine 
died in Rebel prisons; fourteen died in hospitals, while several 
who returned to their homes died from the effect of wounds, or 
from disease contracted while in the service. 

Five or six boys, born and reared in this town but absent when 
hostilities broke out, enlisted where they then were, but considered 
themselves as residents of Wheatland and have requested that 
their names appear in this list, a request that has been complied 
with. The following list is imperfect but is as near correct as it 
was possible to obtain. All were in N. Y., Regiments except 
where otherwise noted. 



Armstrong, Daniel 
Annis, Martin V. B. 

Annis, Myron 

Annis, Albert 
Anthony, Peter B. 



8th Cavalry Shot on picket duty. 

Reynold's Battery. 

„ „ J Wounded at Antietam & 

I died from effect of wound. 

Mack's Rifle " 
4th Artillery. 



Brown, D. D. S. 
Brown, David 

Blair, James 

Blackburn, Lowry 
Barry, Patrick 
Bissell, Frank 
Beckwith, Wm. L. 
Beckwith, Charles 
Beckwith, James 



Paymaster 
4th Heavy Art. 

8th Cavalry 

4th Artillery 
4th n 
1 st Cavalry. 
1 3th Infantry 
4th Artillery 
4th " 



Army of the Cumberland. 

In Soldiers Home. 

Died in Andersonville 
Prison. 

Soldiers Home. 



Wounded & in prison. 
Wounded. 



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Burbridge, John 
Bostwick, O. R. B, 
Bieford, George W, 
Butler, Hector A. 



44th Infantry 
Sharp Shooter 
28th Inf. 
Sharp Shooter. 



Wounded, Bull Run. 
Capt. Grey Unattached. 



Cone, Charles H. 
Croft, Ralph 
Croft, J. Summerneld 
Childs, George 
Chapman, Joseph 
Catt, Robert 
Cates, George 
Clark, Peter 
Clark, John 
Clark, James H. 
Clark, Patrick 
Cox, Edward H. 
Cox, Bryce A. 
Chapin, Horace 
Cook, Thomas 
Cook, Matthew 
Cowman, John 
Cook, William 
Cain, Peter 
Cameron, Hugh B. 
Carson, Joseph 
Cronin, Albert H. 
Carmell, John 



1 3th Infantry Killed in Wilderness. 

1 08th " " at Gettysburg. 

26th Artillery. 

Independent Batty. 

8th Cavalry. 

140th Infantry 

140th " 

1 3th " 

1 08th " 

108th " 
4th Artillery 
8th Cavalry 
1 08th Infantry 
140th » 

U. S. Navy. 
108th Infantry 
20th Mack's Battery. 
I 08th Infantry. 

4th Artillery Died in hospital. 

18th Battery. 
3d N. Y. Cavalry. 

Normal School Co. Wounded Antietam. 
108th Infantry Died July 4th, 1897. 



Died in hospital. 

Died Annapolis Hospital 

Killed at Fredericksburg. 

Wounded Antietam. 

Wounded Beverly Ford. 

Killed Petersburg. 

Left without leave. 



De Forest, George 
Deitrick, Darius 
Dunn, Patrick 
Deitz, George 
Deitz, Frederick 
Deitz, Henry W. 
Doris, Daniel 



1 08th Infantry 
1 08th ■ 

4th Artillery 

4th " 



Wounded Fredericksburg. 
Killed Gettysburg. 
Died May 2d, 1875. 
Prisoner Ream's Station. 



Reynold's Batt'y Wounded Wilderness. 
8th Cavalry Died Fort Mc Gregor. 

4th Artillery Died in hospital. 



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Estes, James B. 



6th Artillery 



( Died Fort Mc Gregor, 
} July, 1864. 

Eno, Thomas U. S. Navy 

Eastman, Frederick Normal School Co. Died in hospital. 

Eastwood, Elias Left without permission. 

Earl, Henry Regular Army 



Francis, John R. 

Foley, Michael 
Fitzgerald, John 
Fitzgerald, Michael 
Falkner, Patrick 
Furman, George T. 
Ford, John 
Ford, Thomas 



1 3th Infantry 

8th Cavalry 
8th " 
4th Artillery 
1 40th Infantry 
4th Artillery 
1st n 
Regular Army 



S Discharged - reinstated 
I 4th Artillery. 



Prisoner Ream's Station. 

Left service. 

Prisoner. 

Andersonville Prison. 



Garbutt, James 
Gillson, James 

Gleason, Shepard 1 3th Infantry 



1 3th Infantry 
3d Cavalry 



Grey, David B. 
Graner, John J. 
Gleason, Frank 
Guthrie, Andrew 



1 3th " 
108th " 
4th Artillery 
8th Cavalry 



Glennon, Patrick R. 1 3th Infantry 
Golden, Thomas 26th Battery 
Graham, Alexander 1 40th Infantry 
Green, Abner O. 4th Artillery 



Died Georgetown Hospital 



Mn 



Promoted to Lt. Col. 25th 
f. died while on march. 



Died Sept. 7, 1897. 

Wounded at Petersburg. 
Killed in battle. 

Salsbury Prison. 



Hume, John 1 40th Infantry 

Houghtaling, David 4th Artillery 

Houghtaling, Dan'l. U. S. Navy 

Hyde, Eldridge 4th Artillery 

Hyde, William U. S. Navy 

Hawley, George A. " " 

Hallings, Bart 8th Cavalry 



Wounded in Wilderness. 

( Prisoner Reams Station, 
■\ exchanged, died on way 
l home. 

Died Salsbury Prison. 

Monitor Mahopac. 



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Hughes, James 
Hart, John 
Halligan, Thomas 
Haws, David 
Hubbard, Edwin 
Hollenbeck, Wells 
Hollenbeck, Arch 
Hollenbeck, Dennis 
Hanford, Joseph P. 
Hanford, Franklin 



4th Artillery 
4th " 

4th " 

140th Infantry 
140th » 



Prisoner Ream's Station. 
Died in the service. 

Left without permission. 

it n ii 



67th Inf. Co. K. Afterwards in 12th U.S. Inf. 
U. S. Navy Midshipman. 



Johnson, Richard M. 8th Cavalry 

Johnson, William F. 1 08th Infantry Killed at Antietam. 

Johnson, Thomas 1 08th " Died in hospital. 



Kelly, William 
Kendrick, George 
Kendrick, John 



8th Cavalry 
1 4th Artillery 
14th " 



Lamphere, Geo. W. 
Law, Samuel 
Lowe, Christopher 



1 3th Infantry 
108th " 
108th " 



Mustered out with Co. '65. 



Killed. 



Martin, Rice 

Marshall, Bishop 
Melbourne, James 
Morrison, James 
Moon, Joseph F. 

Miller, Romanta T. 

Muar, Edward 
Munson, Frank 
Munson, Scott W. 
Munson, George 
Munson, D. A. 
Mallery, Frank 
Marsh, William 
Marsh, Orson 



1 40th Infantry 

8th Cavalry 
4th Artillery 
1st n 
1 40th Infantry 

4th Artillery 



4th n 
4th " 
44th Infantry 
4th Artillery 
Michigan Regt. 
4th Artillery 
4th ■ 
4th " 



( Died of wound received 
( in battle. 

Died in 1868. 

Killed at Fredericksburg. 



S Wounded and prisoner 
' at Ream's Station. 



Killed at Gettysburg. 



Wounded - lost an arm. 
Died in prison. 



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Mahar, Michael 
Miller, Thomas 
Morrisey, Daniel 
Meehan, Edward 
Martin, Hezekiah 
Maginnes, Peter 
Maginnes, James 
Maine, Andrew 



4th Artillery Killed in Bat. Wilderness. 

8th " 

8th Cavalry 

8th " Absent at Roll Call. 

8th » 

1 40th Inf. Absent without leave. 

140th ■ ■ ■ ■ 

140th ■ 



Mc Vean, John J. Capt. 8th Cavalry. 

Mc Vean, Charles Capt. 8th " Died in Charleston prison. 

Mc Vean, Archibald 13th Infantry Wounded Bull Run. 

Mc Naughton, Peter Surgeon Army of Tennessee. 

Mc Naughton, Peter 

Mc Naughton, John B. 1 08th Inf. Wounded Fredericksburg. 

Mc Naughton, Wm. C. Sharp Shooter Killed by shell explosion. 

Mc Naughton, Henry D. 4th Artillery 

Mc Naughton, John D. 4th " Died in Washington. 

Mc Naughton, Wm. D. 8th Cavalry Died in hospital. 

Mc Naughton, John C. A. 1 08th Inf. Died in hospital. 

Mc Nicholas, Michael 89th " 

Mc Nicholas, Thomas 4th Artillery 

Mc Pherson, Robert 1 08th Inf. 

McPherson, Duncan C. 4th Artillery 

Mc Pherson, Henry 4th " 

8th Cavalry 

4th Artillery 

108th Inf. 

3d Cavalry 



Mc Phillips, Michael 
McCabe, Michael 
Mc Kelvey, John 
Mc Kelvey, James 



Died in Rochester. 
Left without permission. 

Wounded Fredericksburg. 



Nelles, James 

O' Conner, William 

Parker, John 
Powers, Patrick 
Pero, Peter 
Perkins, Alfred G. 



1 08th Inf. Killed at Antietam. 

108th Inf. 

1 3th Inf. Mustered out with Co. 
4th Artillery 

Large bounty, small service. 
1 3th Inf. 



Three Sons of Daniel C. Mc Naughton. 



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Quinn, Patrick 



8th Cavalry Soldiers Home, Bath. 



Richardson, Stephen 
Remington, Silas H. 
Radband, Thomas 
Ryan, James 
Rogers, Harris 
Row, Augustus 
Richards, Jason A. 
Richards, Solomon 
Richards, Eugene 
Reiley, John 
Reisenger, Joseph 
Rulifson, John 



1 08th Inf. Wounded, Wilderness. 
8th Cavalry Wounded. 
8th " 
8th ■ 

4th Artillery Died Soldiers Home, Bath. 
1 3th Inf. Bounty jumper. 

Normal School Co. 
44th Inf. Killed at Gettysburg. 

44th " 

1 08th " Died in Rebel prison. 

8th Cavalry 
3d n 



Shadbolt, George 

Spring, Charles 
Sill, Henry M. 
Skinner, Scott 
Smith, Moses O. 
Smith, William C. 
Smith, Willard 
Smith, Alfred 
Sparks, William W. 
Sloane, Horace 
Scott, Walter 
Strong, William 



Wih 



Raid, 



4«h Artillery > ™ 

4th » 

4th " 

Sharp Shooter. 

4th Artillery Prisoner Ream's Station 

4th " Died in hospital. 

U. S. Navy Discharged, disability. 

Eng'r. Corps. 

1 08th Inf. 

8th Cavalry. 

108th Inf. 

108th " 



Tarbox, Brainard 
Tarbox, Henry F. 
Trayhern, Eli M. 
Taffe, Peter 



1 08th Inf. Killed at Antietam. 
108th " 
4th Artillery. 
1 40th Inf. Absent at Roll Call. 



Ward, Willis F. 



Wallace, Frederick 
Weeks, Elmer 
Wells, Seth 
Wells, Washington 
Wilcox, Charles R. 



4th Artillery. 



Wallace, William L. 26th 



27th Inf. 

27th » 

1 08th " Wounded at Gettysburg. 

Penn. Regt. Killed in Service. 

4th Artillery. 



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Wilson, William 140th Inf. Died in hospital. 

White, James 4th Artillery Died in Anderson Prison. 

Wilber, Benjamin W. Reynold's Bat. 

Wheeler, Harlan P. 1 40th Inf. 

AV / i t i q^l i c ! Died Soldiers Home, 

Wood, James 1 3th Infantry j Los Angeles, Cal. 1 898. 

Weston, John 1 3th " 

Weigart, John 1 08th " Wounded Fredericksburg. 



Young, Frank 
Yawman, Matthew 



108th Inf. Killed at Antietam. 
Penn. Regt. Died in hospital. 



Zimmerman, Abram 1 8th Bat. 



Died April 8,1897, 
at Scottsville. 



During the latter part of the Civil War the Government made 
four drafts to fill the depleted ranks of the regiments in its service, 
viz: July, 1 863, and March, July and November 1864. In the 
call of 1863 it was shown that Wheatland had not only furnished 
its full proportion of men but an excess equal to the number 
required under the first call. 

In the draft of March, 1 864, sixteen names were drawn from 
the wheel, namely: George Cate, Isaac Budlong, Henry W. Chapin, 
Myron Miller, Joseph Woodgate, Daniel Stewart, Darwin Shad- 
bolt, Daniel Smith, John G. Falkner, Joseph Carson, Benjamin 
Warren, Walter Irvine, Ethan Davis, Thomas Flinn, Andrew 
Mc Combs and Anthony Frome. The first named, George Cate, 
reported in person for service, was assigned to the 1 40th, a 
Monroe County Regiment; after a few months was taken ill and 
died in the Annapolis Hospital. His remains were brought home 
for interment in Belcoda. Budlong, Chapin, Miller and Wood- 
gate procured substitutes, the others commuted service by the 
payment of $300.00 each in accordance with a rule of the War 
Department. 



Upon the third call a sufficient sum of money was raised by 
voluntary contribution to fill the town's quota. 



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Upon the fourth requisition the Town Board were authorized to 
issue the town's bonds for a sufficient amount to fill the town's 
quota. Bonds of the town to the amount of $10,800.00 were 
issued, upon which $1,400.00 interest was paid, making the cost 
to Wheatland over $12,000.00 to fill the last call of the Govern- 
ment for troops. 

THE WAR WITH SPAIN, 1898. 

So far as known the only men to enlist for service in the war 
with Spain in 1 898, were two brothers John C. and Albert F. 
Dillman of Scottsville. The former was in Co. H., 3d N. Y. 
Volunteer Infantry and the latter in Co. E., 2d N. Y. Volunteer 
Infantry as a Corporal. Carroll Mc Vean of Wheatland was in 
the Regular Army when the war began as a Quarter-master 
Sergeant and saw service during the whole period of hostilities. 



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THE SCOTTSVILLE LITERARY 
SOCIETY. 



This Society was organized at an informal meeting held in 
Scottsville December 11, 1871, at the house of Mrs. Mary M. 
Fraser, Mr. Geo. E. Slocum and Mrs. Fraser being appointed a 
Committee to draft a Constitution. On December 18, 1871, at 
Mr. Slocum's house the Committee reported and the following 
Constitution was adopted: 

ARTICLE I. This society shall be called The Scottsville 
Literary Society ; its object, the mental improvement of its 
members. 

ARTICLE II. Its officers shall consist of a President, Secretary 
and an Executive Committee of three. The President shall be 
elected at each meeting to preside at the next. The Secretary, 
whose duty it shall be to keep a record of the proceedings of the 
Society, and, if occasion require, act as its financial officer, shall 
be elected for a period of six months. The Executive Committee, 
who shall be appointed at the last meeting of each month, shall 
report at each meeting a programme of proceedings for the next. 

ARTICLE III. Candidates for admission may be proposed by 
any member, and shall be admitted upon receiving a majority of 
the votes of those present. 

ARTICLE IV. The regular meetings shall be held at 7:00 
o'clock on Monday evening of each week at the place designated 
by the previous meeting. 

ARTICLE V. Alterations or additions to these rules may be 
made by a majority of the members enrolled at any meeting of 
the Society. 

In the first record book of the Society, under date of December 
11, 1871, there are given in Mrs. Fraser's handwriting, three 
" Honorary Members," namely: Mrs. Abby McVean, Mrs. Jane 
McNaughton, and Mrs. Ellen Dorr; and also ten " Charter Mem- 
bers," as follows: Rev. T. A. Weed, Geo. E. Slocum, Romeyn T. 
Sibley, Lydia F. Slocum, Annis W. Sibley, Prof. D. L. Stewart, 
Jane A. Dorr, Eleanor M. Dorr, Kate Mc Naughton and Mary 
M. Fraser. 



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Mrs. Fraser was the Secretary of the meeting and with charac- 
teristic modesty placed her own name last. 

During the first year of its existence 37 additional members 
were admitted to the Society and up to Dec. 10, 1906, the 35th 
anniversary of its organization, no less than 5 1 2 names were 
added to its rolls. Of the whole number, about one-fourth are 
dead and many of the living are scattered over the United States. 
About 50 of its members have been teachers in the Scottsville 
Union School, many of them being earnest workers in the Society. 
Nearly all the clergy of the different village churches have joined 
its ranks and have contributed largely to its success. The mem- 
bership has been confined to no class or condition, young and 
old being admitted on equal terms. 

For many years Mrs. Fraser was the Society's Secretary and 
kept a very full and interesting record of the proceedings and 
debates. At first meetings were held weekly and continued 
even during the summer months, though at less frequent inter- 
vals, but of late years the summer meetings have been discon- 
tinued and meetings held only on alternate Monday evenings 
from October to May, at the residences of members. 

Of the charter members but one survives:- Miss Eleanor M. 
Dorr, now Mrs. James Roy, of Niagara Falls, N. Y. 

Unlike most organizations this one has never had a permanent 
President, Vice-President or Treasurer, the Secretary being the 
only official whose term extends over more than three meetings. 

The long continued existence and great usefulness of the 
Scottsville Literary Society may be attributed to various causes. 
The fact that there is no entrance fee, nor any annual or other 
dues, has kept it from all temptations to extravagance and made 
it eligible for the most impecunious. No sales, suppers, bazaars, 
concerts or dramatic performances have been necessary to fill 
its treasury for it has needed no funds and had no treasury. The 
additional fact that refreshments are not served at the meetings, 
has made the Society welcome to many hostesses whose only 
preparations are the providing of a few extra chairs and lights. 



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Again, while moral and religious subjects are handled, denomi- 
national questions are never discussed. Political topics ( using 
the term " political " in its wider sense ) are often introduced, but 
party politics have been uniformly tabooed. Ardent debates 
have been common, but personal criticisms have always been 
avoided. Even the applause of some exceptionally fine paper, 
or address, or musical performance has been rare, lest the Society 
fall into the opposite habit of applauding everything. 

No one who has watched the course of events in Scottsville 
and its vicinity during the past 35 years can fail to see the 
beneficial effects of this organization upon the community, and 
while the Society feels deeply the loss of those older members 
whom death has deprived of their services, yet the constant 
infusion of young men and women to its rolls makes it seem 
safe in predicting many years of continued usefulness to the 
Scottsville Literary Society and in warranting the belief that 
some of its younger members may live to assist at its one 
hundredth anniversary in 1971. 



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WHEATLAND'S CENTENNIAL 
CELEBRATION. 



Pursuant to notice a meeting of the residents of Wheatland 
was held in St. Joseph's Hall August 1st, 1889, to consider the 
advisability of celebrating the 1 00th anniversary of the town's 
settlement. 

George E. Slocum was called to the chair and Frank H. Brown 
chosen secretary. There was no difference of opinion as to the 
expediency of a celebration and but little as to its character and 
scope. Isaac W. Salyerds outlined a programme of exercises he 
thought suitable and it was adopted, viz: a parade exhibiting the 
town's industries; the fire department, civic societies, etc., with 
addresses and music. Senator Mc Naughton and Mr. Slocum 
were invited to prepare addresses. Executive and finance com- 
mittees were appointed and the meeting then adjourned for one 
week. 

At the adjourned meeting Stephen Bennett was Chairman. 
The Executive Committee reported Oliver Allen as President of 
the day and Volney P. Brown as Marshal. 

The old committees were enlarged and new ones appointed. 
The following were the committes in charge. 

EXECUTIVE: Stephen Bennett, William D. Garbutt, D. B. 
Mc Naughton, T. R. Sibley, Newton Blackmer, John W. Garbutt, 
David Nichols, Isaac W. Salyerds, Thomas Brcwn, Wm. J. Howe. 
Wm. Rafferty, Volney P. Brown, James H. Kelly, William A. Shirts. 

FINANCE : Isaac W. Salyerds, Alexander Christie, W. Henry 
Harmon, Earll H. Slocum, George H. Pope, Stephen Bennett, 
William Donnelly, Volney P. Brown, Robert R. Garbutt, William 
C. Page. 

INVITATION : Oliver Allen, Thomas Brown, James H. Kelly, 
William C. Page, George E. Slocum. 

RECEPTION : Thomas Brown, John Armstrong, Newton 
Blackmer, James A. Campbell, Philip Garbutt, Isaac Budlong, 



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Selden S. Brown, Eugene E. Harmon, Milton A. Hyde, James 
H. Kelly, Donald Mc Naughton, Julian J. Mc Vean, Alex. F. 
Mc Pherson, J. C. Neafie, Wm. C. Page, Wm. Shirts, Wm. Raff erty, 
Daniel A. Stewart, A. R. Stokoe, L. M. Godley. 

PRINTING : D. Mc Naughton, R. C. E. Brown, Philip Garbutt, 
H. L. S. Hall. 

EXHIBITION : F. H. Brown, Schuyler Budlong, John G. Falk- 
ner, Mrs. Ralph Budlong, Mrs. C. H. Brown, Myron H. Miller, 
Mrs. V. P. Brown, Miss E. M. Dorr, Mrs. Mary M. Fraser, Miss 
Jane E. Mann, Miss H. F. Mc Vean, S. W. Mc Donald, D. E. Rogers, 
Andrew Meehan, T. R. Sibley. 

DECORATIONS : Wm. J. Howe, Henry Chapin, Charles J. 
Franklin, Otto Bennett, Seward Scofield, Daniel P. Campbell, 
Milton Stokoe, Wm. D. Sirobel, Jr., Le Grand Brown. 

PARADE : Isaac W. Salyerds, Wm. J. Howe, M. M. Mc Nichols, 
Seth Wells, Andrew Guthrie, D. B. Mc Naughton, David Nichols, 
E. H. Slocum. 

VETERANS OF 1861: M. M. Mc Nichols, Andrew Guthrie, 
J. J. Mc Inryre, Seth Wells, D. B. Grey, D. A. Munson. 

MUSIC: J. F. Ward, H. L. S. Hall, Eli M. Trayhern, L. O. 
Merrill, C. T. Brown, Mrs. H. H. Miller. 

REFRESHMENTS: Mrs. W. J. Howe, Mrs. D. D. S. Brown, 
Mrs. S. Budlong, Mrs. Thomas Brown, Mrs. Thomas Burrell, 
Mrs. C. T. Brown, Miss Belle Donnelly, Mrs. R. R. Garbutt, 
Miss Lizzie Fitzgerald, Mrs. G. A. Hadley, Mrs. J. H. Kelly, 
Miss Lizzie Mc Arthur, Mrs. S. W. Mc Donald, Mrs. George H. 
Pope, Mrs. J. C. Mc Vean, Mrs. M. C. Mordoff, Mrs. C. D. Nichols, 
Mrs. Thomas Rafferty, Mrs. Henry Sage, Mrs. T. R. Sibley, Mrs. 
D. A. Stewart, Mrs. Malcom Stewart, Mrs. H. Vallance, Mrs. H. R. 
Severance, Miss Lizzie Warren, Mrs. W. W. Weeks. 

The 1 3th of September was agreed upon as the day of cele- 
bration. The reports of the Chairmen of the Executive and 
Finance Committees were encouraging, showing the interest felt 
by residents in all parts of the town. 



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The week of the celebration was devoted to preparations for 
that event and the amount of work accomplished surprising. 

The day was ushered in by a salute of one hundred guns. The 
morn was mild and pleasant and the day admirably adapted to 
the occasion. It found Scottsville dressed in gala-day attire, its 
hotels, stores and private residences adorned with flags, evergreens 
and mottoes, many of which were elaborate and beautiful, Above 
the entrance to the bridge over the Oatka was the word 
" Welcome " in large letters of evergreen with the dates 1 789- 1 889. 
A large arch trimmed with flags and evergreen was thrown over 
Main Street in front of Bennett's; a double arch in front of Clark's; 
another at the race bridge at Weingand's, upon the apex of which 
stood a life size figure of n Uncle Sam " holding in his hand the 
National Flag. In front of the Catholic Church Father O'Neil 
erected a unique and handsome arch composed of ladders, 
tastily trimmed. At Dr. Howe's a double arch springing from 
the four corners and joined at the center and crowned with a 
sheaf of wheat and the dates 1 789- 1 889. An arch in front of the 
residence of Mr. Stearns on Rochester Street, from the center of 
which was suspended a barrel of flour. Over the entrance to the 
grove was one of J. T. Wells' patent truss arches. 

At 10:30 a special train on the W, N. Y. & Penn. R. R. arrived 
bringing the 54th Regiment Band, County Officials, former resi- 
dents, and the Scotts with bag pipes. The invited guests were 
escorted to the Cargill House, from the balcony of which they 
witnessed the parade. The streets of the village at this time 
were packed with vehicles, filled with people, some of whom 
had driven long distances to be present at the celebration. 

The procession, headed by the Marshal and his aids moved at 
1 1 o'clock in the following order. 

Scotch Band with bag pipes. 

Carriage containing President of the day and speakers. 

Mumford Cornet Band. 

Mumford Hook & Ladder Company. 

Goddess of Liberty. 
Catholic Total Abstainence Society. 



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Mosier's Drum Corps. 

Industrial Parade. 

Fifty-fourth Regiment Band. 

Scottsville Fire Company. 

Families in carriages. 

The procession reached the grove at 12 o'clock when notice 
was given that " Dinner was ready " and all who desired to partake 
thereof were invited to do so. Long lines of tables were erected 
in the grove, presided over by Wheatland's fairest daughters. 
The opinion expressed by those who partook of refreshments 
was that in quality they were excellent and in quantity abundant. 
South of the tables had been erected two large tents, one of 
which was used for the reception of guests and the other for the 
exhibition of ancient relics. To enumerate the articles on exhibi- 
tion would be a difficult task and will not be attempted in detail. 
It included vehicles, farming implements, fire arms, looms, 
spinning wheels, a clock reaching from floor to ceiling, high post 
bedstead with trundle bed beneath, clothing, bureau, tables, chairs, 
fireplace with swinging crane, pots and kettles, andirons, foot- 
warmer and lantern, while the ceiling o'er head was adorned 
with strings of apples and pumpkins, drying for future use. The 
exhibition was a creditable one and attracted the attention of old 
and young. 

The speakers' stand, an elevated platform, was on the west side 
of the grove, and was of sufficient capacity to hold the officers of 
the day, a choir of fifty voices and chairs for as many more which 
were filled by elderly people and invited guests. 

The exercises were opened by a selection by the Spring Creek 
Cornet Band, which was followed by the invocation of Rev. 
Hanford A. Edson, asking that the blessing of the Almighty 
might rest upon the assemblage, and that the present generation 
might appreciate the trials and emulate the virtues of the 
" Fathers." The choir sang the n Star Spangled Banner." 

Mr. Oliver Allen, on assuming the duties of his office as Pres- 
ident, spoke as follows: " Fellow citizens of Wheatland, I should 
be ungrateful indeed did I not fully appreciate the high honor 
your choice confers upon me by which I am appointed presiding 



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officer of this great occasion. Such honor comes to man but once 
in a century." 

The Fifty-fourth Regiment Band played a patriotic air after 
which a poem " Pioneer Redivivus " by John H. Mc Naughton, of 
York, written for the occasion, was read by Donald Mc Naughton. 

The choir sang another patriotic piece. 

The theme of Mr. Slocum's address, " Wheatland's Early 
History," will be found scattered through the pages of this volume. 

Senator Mc Naughton was then introduced to the audience. 
He spoke of Western New York's Colonial History: of the labors 
of the Jesuit Missionaries with the natives of the soil, the Seneca 
Indians; of the position assumed by the latter in the War of the 
Revolution, and of the expedition of Sullivan in 1779 to punish 
them for their treachery. He contrasted the condition of things 
a century ago with the same at the present time - the log hut of 
the settler with a bark roof and minus a floor, with the costly and 
convenient residence of his descendents; turning a furrow with a 
wooden mold board to riding a sulky plow; a mail once a week 
with the present postal facilities; a tallow dip with an electric 
light, etc., etc. 

After the exercises Oliver Mc Kenzie, in full Scottish costume, 
to pipe music, danced the Highland Fling, and in response to 
hand clapping danced the sword dance. 

South of the Speakers stand was an extensive platform covered 
with canvas, designed as a dancing hall. In the early evening 
this was crowded with young people who enjoyed the music and 
dancing until a late hour in the night. The display of fireworks 
in the evening was fine 

It was estimated that there were from three to five thousand 
people present during the day, among whom were many 
distinguished persons from Monroe, Livingston, Genesee and 
Wyoming Counties. 



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THE O-AT-KA WOOLEN MILLS. 
MUMFORD, N. Y. 

( The information upon which this article is based was 
furnished by Mr. Oliver Allen, 3d. ) 

In the year 1816 Oliver Allen, 1 st. and William Remington 
first met at the Higbee Woolen Mills in Canandaigua, N. Y., and 
formed an acquaintance which afterwards ripened into a partner- 
ship in the woolen manufacturing business. 

In 1821 Remington and Allen came to Caledonia, N. Y. and 
started a woolen mill where the New York State Fish Hatchery 
now is. This was one of the first, if not the first, woolen mill 
west of the Genesee River. In 1 829 they bought a water privi- 
lege in Mumford, N. Y., on Allan's Creek, or as it was called by 
the Indians, the n O-at-ka, " and there built the stone mill which 
is still standing, and which was long known as Allen's Mill on 
Allan's Creek, at Mumford. 

In 1841 Remington and Allen dissolved partnership and the 
mills were operated until 1 844 by Oliver Allen, I st. In the latter 
year he took his son, Oliver Allen, 2d, into partnership with him 
and the firm was Oliver Allen and Son until 1848, when the 
father died. Oliver Allen, 2d, continued the business until 1877, 
when his son, Oliver Allen, 3d, became a member of the firm, 
which again became Oliver Allen and Son, and so continued 
until 1902 when the mill was closed and the business discon- 
tinued. Thus for over eighty years the manufacture of woolen 
goods continued in the hands of three generations of the Allen 
family. 

When Allen and Remington dissolved partnership in 1 84 1 the 
latter took part of the lands owned by the firm and went to 
farming. He had one son, William, who is a Baptist preacher 
in the west, and one daughter, Mary, who married Alexander 
Christie and lives on the " Creek Road " above Mumford. His 
sister, Jerusha H. Remington, married Oliver Allen, 1st, and 
beside their son Oliver Allen, 2d, they had one daughter, Eliza- 
beth M. Allen, who married John R. Olmstead, of Le Roy, N. Y., 
and is still living - 1907. 



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Oliver Allen, 2d, died in 1903 and his widow, who was Miss 
Catherine Huchins Seaman, of Palmyra, N. Y., survives him and 
is living with her daughter, Mrs. Frances A. Campbell, in Brook- 
lyn, N. Y. Another daughter, Miss Kate Elizabeth Allen, is also 
living in Brooklyn and four sons, Oliver Allen, 3d, Leonard Lewis 
Allen, Ethan Allen and Harry Allen, have their homes in Buffalo, 
Rochester and New York City respectively. 

The hospitality dispensed at the Allen home in Mumford will 
long be remembered by all who enjoyed it. The old O-at-ka 
Mill and the homestead are now the property of Judge Harvey 
F. Remington, of Rochester, N. Y., a relative of William Reming- 
ton. The Allen's were all known for their enterprise and public 
spirit and were interested in everything looking to the material 
and moral benefit of the community. Oliver Allen, 2d, (together 
with Major D. D. S. Brown of Scottsville ) was one of the chief 
promoters of the Rochester and State Line Railroad ( now the 
Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg R. R, ) and was its first presi- 
dent; this was at a time when Wheatland had no direct railroad 
communication with the rest of the world. 

The permanent fame of the O-at-ka Mills under the Allen's 
management was due not only to the fact that they gave employ- 
ment to many persons, and a market for home grown wool, but 
to the superior quality of the goods manufactured, which had a 
national reputation as being n A No. 1 " in every respect - " all 
wool and a yard wide. " 



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REMINISCENCES 

OP FRANCIS X. BECKWITH. 

•GATES, N. Y., 1882. 



In May, 1830, I took up my residence in Scottsville. The 
village at that time contained a population of four hundred. 
The brick mill of Judge Carpenter was built that year. The 
Hanford Mill had been running some years. 

The Methodist Society had a new brick church. The Presby- 
terians were occupying the Academy building on Caledonia 
Street, but were preparing to build a church, which they did the 
following year, placing it at the head of Church Street. The first 
Methodist minister was John Copeland, who was followed by 
John Wiley. Mr. Hart, a Scotchman, was the Presbyterian 
minister. 

The Masons had a lodge room in the upper story of the old 
school house on Rochester Street, but had ceased to hold meet- 
ings on account of the excitement over the abduction of Morgan. 

Joseph Eastman was teaching the Academy, then practiced 
law in the village, and afterward removed to Rochester, where 
he still resides. ( 1882. ) 

The Robinson family were living in Scottsville in 1830. Their 
daughter Rebecca married James Mc Vean; Samuel went west 
and died there some four years ago; Abram is now keeping 
hotel in Scottsville. 

Paul Austin was married to Alvira Hammond and was living 
where his widow now resides and was taking care of old Mrs. 
Scott, widow of Isaac Scott. 

Anson Seymour was running a cloth making and coloring 
works. He was succeeded by a Mr. Eaton, and Eaton by Mr. 
Atwood. 

Alvin Savage was a boss millwright; Amos Beecher married 
Savage's daughter Betsy. Beecher died and James Wells married 
his Widow. Thomas Coller married Jane, a daughter of Savage, 



00 



and W. G. Ashby married another. James Savage, a son of 
Alvin, a musician, moved to Detroit, Michigan. 

George Ensign, Isaac I. Lewis, E. T. Miller, John Harroun, 
Henry Tarbox, Thomas Jones, Thomas Halsted, Joseph Thorns 
and Wm. Peabody were in Scottsville when 1 went there. Mr. 
and Mrs. Zachariah Cumber, Mrs. Raulet, the mother of Fifield 
Raulet, and Mrs. Dean, a sister of Powell Carpenter, were there 
also. Enos Trayhern came in 1 836; George T. Bristol and 
Horace Chapin in 1840; Albert Row about the same time. 

Harvey Killam and Ephraim Bingham had a foundry, made 
plows, etc., on the site where the Rafferty shops now are, Solomon 
Davis had a cabinet shop on the same ground. I rented from 
him a part of the shop and commenced the manufacture of 
chairs. Albert Howe had a harness shop nearly opposite the 
Robinson Hotel; John Hammond was his apprentice and suc- 
ceeded him in the business; Hammond sold to S. O. Severance. 
Edward Collins was the Boss Mason and was followed by Daniel 
P. Hammond; John T. Spencer had a shoe shop which he sold 
to Read & Goodrich, who for several years did a large business. 

Doctors Bristol, Edson and Munn were the village physicians. 
Bristol soon afterward retired from practice ; Munn sold to 
McNaughton. 

Wm. Haynes Hanford, Osborn Filer, John Mitchel and Ira 
Carpenter were merchants. Filer succeeded Abraham Hanford 
in trade, afterward removed to Massillon, Ohio, and died there. 

1 nomas Halsted was in the grocery trade but soon after 
bought the Isaac Scott property opposite the Eagle Hotel, then 
owned by Isaac I. Lewis, and built a frame building for a store 
and occupied it. Afterward this property passed into the hands 
of Andrus & Garbutt, then to L. C. Andrus and later the block, 
together with the dwelling adjoining on the west, came into my 
possession and for twenty years was occupied by me for my 
business and residence. 

A man named Coon had just built the brick house on the east 
side of Church Street, now occupied by Mrs. Duncan Mc Vean. 

Haynes Hanford had finished his brick residence on the corner 



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opposite the Catholic Church. 

George Ensign had forsaken the cooperage and was with Ezra 
Carpenter in the Eagle Hotel. 

Michael Sheridan was the blacksmith; Lowry Blackburn, John 
Conners and William Carson worked for him, and afterward had 
shops of their own. Orrin Cartright and George Hahn were in 
the trade later. 

Powell and Ira Carpenter ran the brick mill; Abraham Hanford, 
Lewis Goodrich, Joseph Cox and Samuel Scofield the wooden 
mill. Joseph Woodgate, John Brown, Calvin Nobles and Ellis 
Mc Queen were practical millers. George Whitney was the 
village butcher. Gilbert T., George L. and David Whitney were 
his sons. Solomon Davis, Isaac Mc Donald, F. X. Beckwith and 
Joseph Weingand, cabinet makers. John Kirk, A. B. Penfield, 
James Wells, John Storrs and John Cornell were tailors. Schuyler 
Moses, John Bottsford, David Nettleton and Luke Marvin, - 
carpenters. 

Asa Beecher, Nelson Gould, William Kemp and William 
Brown - shoemakers; F. X. Beckwith, John Morehouse, John 
Mathews and Joseph Quincy - painters; Henry Tarbox, Joseph 
Thorns, John Ferguson, John Wilber and Patrick Rarferty - wagon 
makers; Isaac North, John Deitz and George Valleau - black- 
smiths; Isaac I. Lewis and old Mr. Buck, and Harvey Hyde were 
coopers. 

Old Peter Sheffer was living on the farm bought of Indian 
Allan. Joseph and Isaac Cox were on farms south of the village. 
Thomas and Samuel Shadbolt, and Joseph and Benjamin Bower- 
man also. Powell Carpenter and his sons, Powell, Charles, 
Jefferson and Benjamin were on the farm on the hill west of 
Scottsville, Ezra was in the Eagle Hotel and Ira had a store and 
the Post Office. 

Old Esquire Mc Vean and his sons Hugh, John and James, 
were on the farm next west of Carpenter, and William Reed, 
with a family of boys, was on the same road still farther west. 
The other Mc Vean family, David, Duncan, John and Archibald, 
lived on the north road near Mr. Goodhue's. George Goodhue 



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removed from Parma to Wheatland in 1806 and settled on Lot 
44 on the north road. His wife died in 1844. He died in 1851. 
John and George Goodhue were his sons. Reuben Heath, who 
for many years had lived on the farm now owned by M. Ballen- 
tine, was dead and the farm was worked by his sons Elisha, 
Reuben and William. Mrs. Thomas Halsted, Mrs. Harvey Hyde, 
Mrs. David Nettleton, Mrs. Potter and Mrs. Southworth were his 
daughters. Frank, Robert and Thomas Smith lived nearby. 

Thomas Mc Intosh, a friend of mine, came to Scottsville in 
1837 and was a clerk for Mr. Garbutt and Ira Carpenter and 
afterward was Collector of Tolls on the Genesee Valley Canal. 

During the last of the thirties the school district in the village 
was at a low ebb and not what it ought to be. The practice had 
been to hire a teacher as longas the public money lasted. When 
that was gone school was out. Some of the residents of the 
district thought the school good enough but a few of those who 
thought otherwise had a consultation and resolved to make an 
effort to secure a better and more efficient school. In 1840 John 
Hammond, A. B. Penfield and myself were elected trustees and 
we went to work. Our first move was to enlarge the district, and 
this we accomplished by annexing No. 4, a district in the western 
part of the village. We then secured, by a vote of the district, 
authority to build a new school house and in the following year 
we purchased of Paul Austin a site, and erected thereon a sub- 
stantial brick building containing two large rooms with anteroom, 
etc. ( This building was the east half of the brick house yet 
standing on east Third Street. ) We then offered the school to 
Mr. Catana, who was then teaching a select school in the village, 
but he declined on the ground that such a step would be back- 
ward and not an advance. We then hired a young man named 
Baker ( afterward the Rev. Asa Baker of the M. E. Church ) as 
principal, and Miss Oliver ( who later became Mrs. Francis 
Hooper ) as assistant. Both these teachers did their work admi- 
rably and in a single year succeeded in giving the school a first 
class reputation. 

In 1843 District No. 10 on the north road was divided, the 
western portion attached to the Garbutt district and the eastern 



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portion to district No. I. This accession, together with the acqui- 
sition of some territory on the north, was so great as to necessi- 
tate the enlargement of the school buildings, which was done by 
erecting upon the west side a structure of equal dimensions, thus 
doubling its capacity, affording three large school rooms, and a 
room for the library and recitations. 

Mr. Baker's successors as principal were Carmi C. Olds, Nathan 
A. Woodard and Dr. Morris W. Townsend. The lady teachers 
in addition to Miss Oliver were Mary Jane Halsted, Jerosha 
Clark, Ann Buttolph, Sarah Allen, Anna Dixon and Miss Thorn. 
The school continued to gain in popularity and at the close of 
the decade there was none better in this part of the state. 

Phederus Carter, J. A. Eastman, J. C. Chumasero, Alexander 
Mann, E. Peshine Smith, D. D. S. Brown and John Dorr prac- 
ticed law in the village between 1830 and 1850. 

Caleb Allen was a shoemaker, afterward Justice of the Peace. 
H. B. Marsh was a jeweler, later Albert Rowe in the same trade. 
Ebenezer Smith and Sears Galusha were early residents. H. H. 
Miller and O. P. Simmons started in the marble business about 
1850. Eight or ten years later Simmons sold his interest to his 
partner and Miller conducted the business until a short time 
previous to his death, when it was disposed of to William A. 
Williams. 



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NOTES ON MUMFORD, 

BY 
MISS MARGARET ARMSTRONG. 



Prior to 1 808 John and Robert Mc Kay had purchased of 
Captain Williamson, the agent of the Pulteney Estate, the land 
and water power where the village of Mumford now stands, and 
on the site built a sawmill. 

In 1 809 Robert Mc Kay sold his interest to Thomas Mumford. 

"In 1817 Mc Kay and Mumford built a large grist mill at 
Mumford. About 1822 McKay took the Caledonia mill, and 
Mumford the one at Mumford. He transferred it to his son 
Elisha S. H. Mumford, from whom the place is named. Mumford 
operated the mill until 1833 when H. Hutchinson rented it. Not 
long afterward the property was sold to Philip Garbutt, and his 
son Peter ran it for a few years. It subsequently passed to 
Stephen Saulsbury, to Galbraith and Hammond, to James Mc 
Queen, to Benjamin Christy, then to Page and son. The mill 
burned in 1894." 

( From History of Monroe County. ) 

Other industries in Mumford have been, a brewery erected in 
1 828 by L. White. White had many successors in the malting 
and brewing business, the last one being the late C. H. Swan of 
Caledonia. The building burned in 1900. 

Some time in 1837 Mr. James Blair opened a shop for the 
manufacture of threshing machines and horse-powers. He 
worked at his business until the horse power gave place to the 
engine. Several years ago John and Henry Brown had a carriage 
factory here. They were followed by Nichols and Graham in 
1860. Nichols remained in the village until 1883 when he went 
to Rochester, coming back in 1 884 he and his son worked at the 
business until 1 894, when they went to Le Roy. 

Ira Harmon and Philip Garbutt had plaster mills in the village 
for several years. George Stewart has the Garbutt mill now for 



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a saw mill and a machine shop. The Nichols building stands on 
the site of the Harmon plaster mill. 

In 1883 the building now occupied by L. H. Gardiner was 
built by Stroebel and Allen for a cloth mill. It was used for that 
purpose for a few years. Mr. Turner rented it for a pipe factory 
in 1899. In the fall of 1901 he moved his shop to Rochester. 
The following spring Mr. Wm. Ulter and Mr. Cleary opened it 
again for the manufacture of pipes. In 1 904 they moved to 
Olean. Mr Gardiner came from Rochester in 1905 and started a 
paper mill in this building. 

The Mumford Rural Cemetery was incorporated in 1 88 1 . The 
first burial was that of a child named Anderson, in 1805 or 1807. 
Section B. was added to the north end of the original plot in 
1858. The first burial in the new part was Mr. Isaac Bowers. 
In 1 884 additions were made on the east and west sides. Mr. 
Newell Skinner was the first one buried on the east side. 

CHURCHES OF MUMFORD. 

I find the following items of Church history in a history of 
Monroe County published in 1877:- 

The Episcopal Church of Mumford built a small frame church 
in 1835 where now stands the brick school house. The society 
worshiped here a few years and then dissolved. The church 
was the first one erected in the village, and it and its site were 
sold for school purposes. The minister was Rev. Gillespie who 
gave the society but part of his time. 

In 1838 or '39 the Rev. C. B. Smith, a Congregationalist came 
to the village of Mumford, held a series of meetings, at which a 
number experienced religion, when a Congregational Church 
was constituted numbering twelve or fifteen members; but they 
only continued a short time, when the church died. 

St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church of Mumford was built in 
the early 50's, while Father James McGlen was priest in Scotts- 
ville. The Scottsville priest officiated here until 1 886 when 
St. Columba's church was erected at Caledonia. Since that time 
the priests from Caledonia have ministered to the Mumford 



06 



congregation. The following priests have officiated: Revs. 

Story, Donohue, Maher, Madden, Eisler, and Gommenginger. 
Father Eisler is the priest at present. 

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. 

During the summer of 1851, Rev. W. W. Evarts pastor of the 
Baptist church at Wheatland, commenced holding meetings in 
Mumford, and aroused so much interest that Mr. Evarts was 
asked to circulate a subscription paper, to build a meeting house. 
A site was given and at a meeting held January 18, 1852 Oliver 
Allen, Jedediah Phelps and Peter Garbutt were elected a building 
committee. In March 1852 the contract was let to R. W. Wilcox, 
to build a frame church 38 x 54. 

The First Baptist Church of Mumford was organized Dec. 9th, 
1852, with a membership of thirty-eight. The meeting house 
was finished Aug. 20th, and turned over to the trustees and was 
accepted by them. On the 23d of Aug. it was dedicated, Rev. 
W. W. Evarts preaching the Dedicatory Sermon. Rev. C. A. 
Wardner pastor elect of the congregation, assumed his duties at 
once. His pastorate continued until Jan. 31, 1857, when he 
resigned. The church was supplied by students from the Roch- 
ester Theological Seminary for the next three years. The Rev. 
D. B. Munger was called in April 1860 and resigned May 5, 
1 866. Rev. M. W. Holmes was settled over the two churches, 
Wheadand and Mumford, from Oct. 1866 to July, 1867. March 
1st, 1868 Elder David Morse entered on his labors as joint pastor 
of both churches, which lasted ten months. 

Other pastors have been Revs. S. W. Culver from Dec, 1871 
to May 1877; R. M. Martin, Sept. 1877 to 1879; A. S. Freeman 
from May 1880 to Feb. 1885; Mr. Mc Killop from June 1886 to 
1 889; Geo. D. Rogers served as pastor and supply while studying 
at Rochester; Mr. Mallory, Mar. 1892 to Mar. 1893; Wm. J. Reid 
from Sept. 1893 to July 1895; F. W. Cliff, Sept. 1895 to Feb. 1898; 
Joseph Taylor from Nov. 1898 to Apl. 1900; from Sept. 1900 to 
July 1901 the church was supplied by Mr. King from the Semi- 
nary; Rev. J. B. Barbour from 1901 to 1906; Rev. Robbins com- 
menced his labors in March 1907. 



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The following gentlemen have served as deacons: Rawson 
Harmon, W. F. Garbutt, Donald Mc Naughton, Chauncy Johnson, 
Newell Skinner, Chester Brown, Eugene Harmon, John E. Harvey. 

On September 30, 1 882, the brethren and sisters of the Wheat- 
land church formally united with the Mumford church, during the 
pastorate of A. S. Freeman. In 1871 the trustees of the church 
purchased a house of R. W. Wilcox for a parsonage. 

1 am indebted to Mr. A. S. Grant for the history of this church. 

UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 

The United Presbyterian Church of Mumford was organized 
May 1 3, 1 869 by the Presbytery of Caledonia, with twenty-seven 
members. Most of them came from the United Presbyterian 
Church of Caledonia. The congregation worshiped for several 
years in a building owned by Mr. Dugald McQueen. Rev. W. J. 
Robinson of Beulah supplied the congregation from the time of 
its organization until Feb. 1873. Rev. W. H. Haney was pastor 
of the two congregations from June 1873 to Oct. 1883; Rev. J. A. 
Nelson from April 1884 to Nov. 1884; Rev. C. H. Robinson 
from July 1 886 to July 1 889; Rev. W. W. Lawrence from April 
1890 to April 1893; Rev. D. L. McNary from Sept. 1893 to Nov. 
1 896; Rev. J. A. Mc Kirahan from Dec. 1897 to March 1900; 
Rev. W. P. Cooley from Nov. 1900 to March 1905; Rev. J. L. 
Howie was installed pastor of the church Oct. 1905. The elders 
who have served the church have been Messrs. Samuel Irvin, 
Wm. Robertson, Oliver Allen, David Nichols, John Faulkner, 
A. F. Mc Pherson, Millard Bigford, John Armstrong, and Addison 
Kingsbury. 

A subscription paper was circulated in the autumn of 1 869 to 
raise the funds for building a church and the following spring 
the building was commenced. It was not finished until the fall 
of 1 883. It is built of stone found on the farm of the late Oliver 
Allen. Its dimensions are 56 feet by 36. It is built in Gothic 
style. The stone was donated by Mr. Allen. 



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SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH. 

During the year 1897, the colored people of Mumford and 
vicinity built a small frame church in Mumford which was 
organized as the Second Baptist Church of Mumford. Elder 
Cole acted as pastor until 1906, when he resigned. The pastors 
and supplies at the First Baptist Church have officiated since 
then. George Stewart was the builder of the church. 



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BEAR STORIES. 



The descendents of Samuel Cox living in this vicinity have a 
tradition of an encounter in the early days of Wheatland's settle- 
ment between one of their ancestors and a bear. This story had 
never appeared in print until some ten years ago, when Mr. E. P. 
Clapp, of Rush, wrote it up and it was published in the Roches- 
ter Post Express. The following is Mr. Clapp's version of the 
affair. 

The village of Scottsville in 1 806 was quite different in its 
appearance, as can readily be imagined, from the Scottsville of 
to-day. South of Scottsville, in a double log house on the farm 
now owned by Clifford Davis, lived Samuel Cox. His family 
consisted of his wife, his mother, his sons Joseph, Isaac, and 
James, and his daughters Keturah, Mary and Susanah. They were 
members of the Society of Friends and had been in Scottsville 
but a short time. The town was cleared up but very little, the 
woods were infested with bears and wolves, to say nothing of 
an occasional panther and lynx. Raccoons and squirrels were 
common. Deer were plenty and the Genesee Valley of ninety 
years ago was a veritable sportsman's paradise. Sheep and 
pigs had to have special care, wolves were heard to howl, bear 
tracks were often seen and Bruin when hungry had no objection 
to a dinner of pork and the early settlers were compelled to keep 
their pigs close to their dwellings. 

The Coxes having a fine pig had built a high strong pen of 
logs against their house to keep him in. On the flats toward the 
river bridge lived a bear. Hunger and curiosity prompted him to 
investigate the premises of the Cox's and spying their pig he 
concluded to confiscate it. Climbing into the pen he caught the 
pig and with it in his strong embrace climbed out and started 
towards the river. The pig protesting against such proceedings 
had alarmed the family by his loud and vigorous squealing. 
This, with the frightened cries of the women, brought the men 
from their work. Isaac Cox, a young man of twenty, armed with 
his gun started in pursuit. Bruin was walking on his hind legs 
with his fore legs around the middle of the pig, which he held 



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securely with a hug such as bears only are capable of giving. 
The pig, having given up all hopes, was squealing in a sort of 
hopeless way with the little strength that was left him. 

To the early settlers in the Genesee country a pig had quite a 
value and to have him taken in such a way caused considerable 
excitement even in a quiet Quaker family. Isaac, cool but with 
hurried steps, overtook the thief in the field south of Isaac Bud- 
long's barn. The bear, hearing his pursuer near, turned around 
and with an open countenance uttered a long and ugly growl. 
Now it was necessary to use some skill. A wild shot might kill 
the pig and not the bear, as the latter held his prey in front of 
him and it nearly covered his bearship's person. But the young 
man was equal to the emergency and taking a good aim fired. 
The pig loosened from his embrace made a bee line for home 
as fast as a pig ever did. The bear fell forward dead, the well 
directed shot had passed through his open mouth into his brain 
and his hide was uninjured by the shot. The skin was taken off 
as a trophy and the family returned to its daily routine. 

ANOTHER BEAR STORY. 

The late Shelby Reed, of Chili, is responsible for the following 
statement: As late as the year 1 824 Paul Austin shot and killed 
a bear beneath a slaughter house that stood in the woods on the 
north bank of the Oatka, a few rods east of where the Genesee 
Valley Canal Lock was afterward built. Large game occasionally 
came into the neighborhood as late as 1830. Tom Pease and 
John T. Brown were great hunters in those days. I well remem- 
ber the great drive hunt in the Caledonia Swamp. 



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INDEX TO SUBJECTS. 



SUBJECT. PAGE. 

" Academy, " at Scottsville, 59, 60, 63, 99. 

Albright's Mill, 5 1 . 

Allan, Ebenezer or " Indian " 14, 15, 18, 25, 43, 73, 101. 

Allan Mill at Genesee Falls, 15, 16, 18, 24. 

Allans Creek. 51, 69,97. 

Allans Creek, ferry near its mouth, 30. 

Allan's Creek, landing near its mouth, 29. 

Allen's Mill on Allan's Creek, 97. 

Alien woolen factory at Mumford, 26, 97, 98. 

Annapolis hospital, 87. 

Armstrong, Miss Margaret, Notes on Mumford, by 1 04. 

Artillery Company of Scottsville, 79, 80. 

Associate Reformed Congregation at Beulah, 69. 

Assumption, Church of the, at Scottsville, 67. 

Auburn, N. Y., mentioned, 40. 

Author, Sketch of the 9. 

Avon, N. Y., mentioned, 41, 71. 

Avon and Caledonia, ferry between 30. 

Avon and Canawaugus, first bridge between 32. 

Baptist Church, First, of Mumford, 106. 

1 ■ Second of Mumford, 108. 

" ■ of Wheatland, 62, 1 06. 

n " at Belcoda, 77. 

Batavia, N. Y., mentioned, 40, 71, 74. 79. 

Bear Stories, 1 09. 

Beckwith Avenue, Scottsville, 34. 

Beckwith, F. X., Reminiscences of 99. 

Belcoda, Baptist Church at 62, 63, 77. 

" log school house at r 53. 77. 

" public house at 28. 

" road to Clifton from 33. 

n Revolutionary soldiers buried at 76. 



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Beulah, account of 69, 70. 

■ Church at 69, 70. 

" mentioned 107. 

" Early Settlers near 2 1 . 

Big Spring, 50, 69, 79. 

Black Creek, 73. 

Black Rock, N. Y., mentioned, 77. 

Blacksmiths, early 36. 

Blue Pond, 33. 

Bonds issued by Wheatland in Civil War, 88. 

Braddock's Bay road to Chili, 33. 

Bricklayers, early 36. 

Bridges, 32. 

Brighton, N. Y., mentioned, 80. 

Brooklyn, N. Y., mentioned, 98. 

Brown's Avenue at Scottsville, 34, 55, 63, 67. 

Brown's distillery, 35. 

Brown's grove at Scottsville, 54, 95. 

Buffalo, N. Y., mentioned, 77, 79, 98. 

Buffalo, N. Y„ and Philadelphia R. R. 41. 

Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg R. R. 34, 4 1 , 54, 98. 

Bunker Hill, Reuben Heath at Battle of 76. 

Burrell's Flats, mentioned, 25. 

Cabinet Makers, early 36. 
Caledonia, N. Y., mentioned, 50, 52, 54, 62, 69, 70, 7 1 , 75, 78, 

79,97, 104, 105, 107, 110. 

Caledonia Avenue, Scottsville, 34, 63, 99. 

" ferry to Avon from 30. 

" R. R. to, from Scottsville, 40. 

" township formed, 74. 

Canada mentioned, 79. 

Canal, Genesee Valley 39. 

" " ■ Collectors office at Scottsville, 39. 

" Scottsville and Genesee River, 38. 

Canandaigua, N. Y„ mentioned, 1 6, 40, 5 1 , 7 1 , 74, 97. 



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Canawaugus, mentioned 73. 

" first bridge from, to Avon 32. 

" road. 33. 

" trail from, to Lake Ontario 33. 
Cargill House, at Scottsville, 18, 43, 45. 94. 

Carpenters, early 36. 

Catholic Church of Mumford, 105. 

1 " " Scottsville, 67, 94. 

" Total Abstinence Society, 94. 

1 Cedars, The " 33. 

Centennial Celebration, Wheatland's 92. 

Chili, N. Y., mentioned, 33, 34, 48, 52, 73, 74. 

Church, Congregational at Mumford 105. 

" first organization west of the Genesee River 62. 

" of the Assumption, at Scottsville 67. 

" Street, Scottsville, 34, 63, 64, 65, 99, 100. 

Churches, 62. 

1 of Mumford, 105. 

" of Scottsville, 63, 64, 65, 67, 68. 

Civil Changes, 73. 

Civil War, 1861-1865, 81 to 87. 

" " list of men from Wheatland in 81. 

Clifton, N. Y., mentioned, 33, 62. 

" Baptist Church at, erected in 1852, 62. 

Commissioners of Common Schools, 58. 

Coopers, early 36. 

Consolidated Wheatland Plaster Co., 49. 

Contents, Table of 5. 

Cox ferry, across Genesee River, 29, 30. 

County and State Offices filled by Wheatland men, 75. 

" Creek Road " 35, 62, 97. 

Daguerreotypes in Wheatland first taken by James Savage, 36. 

Dakin Street, Mumford, mentioned, 57. 

Dedication, 3. 

Detroit, Mich., mentioned, I 00. 

Diamond Wall Cement Co., 49. 

Distilleries, 35. 

Drafts during Civil War, 87. 

Dugan Creek, mentioned, 1 6, 73. 



Eagle Hotel, at Scottsville, 
Early harness makers, 

" lawyers, 

" manufactories, 



mechanics, 



ii 



mere 



hants, 



" physicians, 
East Syracuse, N. Y., mentioned, 
East Third St., Scottsville, mentioned, 
Edson's Lane, Scottsville, 
Ellwanger & Barry's nurseries, mentioned, 
Empire Gypsum Co. 
Episcopal Church, Mumford, 
" " Scottsville, 

Erie Railroad, 

" Farmers' Library," 

Farwell's mill, 

Ferries, 

Fifty-fourth Regiment Band, 

First Baptist Church, Mumford, 
" Presbyterian Church of Scottsville, 
■ " " " Wheatland, 

Fish Hatchery, New York State, at Caledonia, 

Florida War, Second, 1835-1842, 

Flouring Mills, 

Fort Erie, Canada, 

Fredericksburg, Battle of, mentioned, 

Freidel's Cooper Shop at Scottsville, mentioned, 

Friends, The Society of 



Garbutt, or Garbuttsville, 47, 51, 58, 63, 77, 102, 104. 

Church at 63. 

discovery of gypsum at 48. 

first mill at 24. 

first school at 57. 

first stores at 23. 

hotels at 27. 

manufacturing establishments at 49. 

post offices at 72. 

Garbutt Gypsum Co. 24. 



38, 100, 


101. 




36. 




23. 




35. 




36. 




23. 




23. 




56. 


55, 


102. 




34, 




60. 




49. 




105. 


/ 


67. 


41, 54 


. 71. 


36 


, 51'. 




33. 




30. 


94,95 


,96. 


106, 


108. 




64. 




63. 




97. 




80. 




24. 


73, 77 


, 78. 




80. 




34. 


66, 


109. 



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Gates, N. Y., town of, mentioned, 73, 74, 99. 

" General Training, " first held in Wheatland, 52. 

Genesee County, organized, 74. 

" " records of, concerning Cox ferry, 30. 

Genesee, Falls of the 1 5, 33. 

11 Genesee Farmer, " mentioned, 60. 

Genesee Rapids, mentioned, 74. 
Genesee River, mentioned, 14, 26, 38, 54, 62, 73, 97. 

" " early navigation on 29. 

n " first bridge over 32. 

" " first school and school house west of 54. 

n Genesee, " Stern wheel steamer 29. 

Genesee Valley, game plentiful in pioneer days, 109. 

n " Canal, 10, 25, 29, 39, 4 1 , 48, 102, 1 10. 

" " " Railroad, 41. 

Geneva, N. Y., mentioned, 62, 73. 

Grace Episcopal Church at Scottsville, 10, 67. 

Gypsum, discovery of, at Garbutt, 48. 



Halls Corners 

Hanford Avenue, Scottsville, 

Hanford mill at Scottsville, 

Hanford's Landing on Genesee River, 

Harmon plaster mill at Mumford, 

Harness makers, early 

Henrietta, bridge to, from Wheatland, 

" ferry to, ■ " 

11 Hicksites, " 

Higbee Woolen Mills at Canandaigua, 
Highways, 
Hotels, 

Houses, first in Scottsville, 

Hotchkin's History of Western New York, quoted, 
Hutchinson's distillery, 

Index, 
Indian Allan, 

" trail, 
Introductory, 
Inverness, township of, 



27, 


,40 




34. 


24, 


,99 


28, 


, 73, 


104, 


105 




%. 


26, 


, 32, 




30. 




66. 




97, 




33. 




26. 




43. 




62. 




35. 




111. 


14, 


15. 




33. 




13. 


52, 


75. 



16 



Jesuit Missionaries, 96. 

Johnstown, N. Y., mentioned, 69. 

Kalamazoo College, mentioned, 56. 

King's Landing on Genesee River, 73. 

Lacy's, Captain, Company, War of 1812-1814, 22. 

Lawyers, early 23. 

Leicester, N. Y., town of 74. 
LeRoy, N. Y., mentioned, 69, 71, 97, 104. 

" " and Scottsville Railroad, 40. 

n " State Line Railroad opened to 41. 

Lewis' flats, road across 34. 
Library, The Farmers', of Wheatland 51, 52, 53. 

List of persons from whom information was obtained, 12. 

List of men in Civil War from Wheatland, 81. 

Literary Society of Scottsville, dedication to 3. 

" " " ■ Sketch of 89. 

Livingston County formed, 75. 

" " Judge, 56. 

Lycoming Calcining Co. 49. 

Main Street, Mumford, mentioned, 57. 

" " Scottsville, mentioned, 94. 

Manufactories, early 35. 
Map of Wheatland, after last page. 

Maple Street, Scottsville, 34. 

Mason's Lodge room at Scottsville, 99. 

Massilon, Ohio, mentioned, 100. 

" McKenzie's Corners," early name for Mumford, 50. 

Mechanics, early 36. 

Merchants, early 23. 
Methodist Episcopal Church, Scottsville, 64, 99. 

Mexican War, 1846, 80. 

Miller's flats at Scottsville, mentioned, 37. 

Mills, flouring 24. 

Millwrights, early 37. 

Monarch Plaster Co. 49. 

Monroe County formed, 75. 

" " in Patriot War, 1837-1838. 80. 



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Montgomery County, mentioned, 73. 

Montreal, Canada, mentioned, 78. 

Morgan, abduction of, mentioned, 99. 

Mosier's Drum Corps, 95. 
Mt. Morris, N. Y., Genesee Valley Canal opened to, in 1840, 39. 

Mudge farm at Hall's Corners, mentioned, 27. 

MumfoTd, mentioned, 69. 

" Baptist Church erected in 1852, 62. 

" Churches at 105. 

" Cornet Band, 94. 

" Early lawyers, merchants and physicians, 23. 

" First Baptist Church at 1 06. 

" First mill at 26. 

" First school near 54. 

" Hook and Ladder Co., 94. 

" Hotels at 28, 

" Notes on, by Miss Margaret Armstrong, 104. 

" O-at-ka Woolen mills at 97. 

" Post Office at 72. 

" Route of Scottsville & Le Roy R. R., through 40. 

" Rural Cemetery, 105. 

" Schools at 57,58. 

" Sketch of 50, 104. 

" Second Baptist Church at 108. 

n United Presbyterian Church of 107. 

Mumfordville, early name for Mumford, 50. 

New York City, mentioned, 98. 

■ ■ Lake Erie & Western R. R., 41. 

" " State Fish Hatchery at Caledonia, 97. 

11 " Times, mentioned, 58. 

Niagara, 73, 77. 

Nichols building, Mumford, 105. 

Northampton, N. Y., town board of 33. 

" " " town organized, 73, 74. 

North Road, 58. 

Notes on Mumford by Miss M. Armstrong, 104. 

O-at-ka Cemetery Association, 1 I . 

" " Reuben Heath buried in 76. 



O-at-ka Creek, 14, 24, 25, 26, 33, 34, 38, 44, 54, 55, 94, 97, I 10. 

" Station, Erie R. R., in Rush, N. Y., 41,54. 

" Woolen Mills at Mumford, 97, 98. 

Offices, County and State, filled by Wheatland men, 75. 

Ogden, N. Y., town of, mentioned, 74. 

Olean, N. Y., mentioned, 42, 105. 

Ontario County, N. Y., 73, 74. 

Orleans County, N. Y., mentioned, 75. 

" Orthodox " Friends or Quakers, 66. 

Oswego, N. Y., mentioned, 77. 

Our Country's Defenders, 77. 

Page mill at Mumford, 50. 

Palmyra, N. Y., mentioned, 98. 

Parma, N. Y., mentioned, 102. 

Patriot War, 1837-1838, 79,80. 

Penfield, N. Y., mentioned, 80. 

Perthshire, Scotland, Settlers from 69. 

Physicians, early 23. 

" Pioneer Redivivus," poem by John H. Mc Naughton, 96. 

Pixley Station, Erie R. R., in Rush, N. Y., 41. 
Portrait of George E. Slocum, facing title page. 

■ " Peter Sheffer, 2d, 16. 

Post Offices in Wheatland, 7 1 . 

Postmasters, names of, in Wheatland offices, 71, 72. 

Preface, 7. 

Presbyterian Church, First, of Scottsville, 64. 

" " ■ " Wheatland, 63, 99. 

" " Parsonage, Scottsville, 44, 46. 

n " United of Mumford, 107. 

" " Society, 59. 

" Denomination, first to organize in Wheatland, 62. 

Presbytery of Caledonia, 107. 

Price house at Garbutt, 27. 
Pulteney Estate, 50, 54, 104. 

Quakers, or Friends, 66. 

Rafferty Shops, Scottsville, 100. 

Railroads, Buffalo, N. Y., and Philadelphia, 4 1 . 

" " Rochester and Pittsburg, 4 1 , 98. 



Railroad, Genesee Valley 41. 

1 " ■ Canal 41. 

" New York Lake Erie and Western 41, 71. 

n Rochester and Pittsburg 41. 

" Rochester and State Line 41, 7 1 , 98. 

" Scottsville and Le Roy 40. 

Western New York and Pennsylvania 41. 

Railroads, 40. 

Railroad Street, Scottsville, 34. 

Reaper, first grain, in Wheatland, 37. 

Reminiscences of F. X. Beckwith, 99. 

Revolutionary War, 76. 

Riga, N. Y., Town of, mentioned, 52, 74. 
River Road, 34, 66, 76. 

River navigation, 29. 

Robinson hotel at Scottsville, 1 00. 
Rochester, N. Y., 41, 42, 48, 58, 60, 67, 70, 71, 

73, 79, 80, 98, 99, 104, 105, 106. 

Rochester and Pittsburg R. R., 41. 

n and State Line R. R., 41, 98. 

" Branch, Pennsylvania R. R., 42. 

" Historical Society, 10. 
" Rochester in the Forties," address by George E. Slocum, 10. 

Rochester Post-Express, quoted, 109. 

" Street, Scottsville, 34, 63, 64, 94, 99. 

" Theological Seminary, 1 06. 

Roman Catholic Church at Mumford, 105. 

" " " " Scottsville, 67. 

Rural Cemetery, Mumford, 105. 

" Free Delivery routes from Scottsville, 7 1 . 

Rush, N. Y., mentioned, 109. 

Rush and Wheatland, ferry between 30. 

" " first bridge between 32. 

" First white child born in 20. 

" Scottsville Station on Erie R. R., in 41. 

Sackett's Harbor, N. Y., mentioned, 77. 

Sackett's Wall Board Company, 49. 

Salamanca, N. Y., State Line R. R., opened to 41. 

School Commissioner, 59. 

Schools, 54. 



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Schools, government of 58, 59. 

Scotch Colony and Scotch Settlers, 18, 20, 21, 54, 69. 

Scott Hotel at Scottsville, 18, 27. 

Scott, Isaac, name of Scottsville derived from 1 8. 

Scottsville Academy, 59, 60. 

" and Genesee River Canal, 25, 38. 

" and LeRoy Railroad, 34, 40. 

" Artillery Company, 79. 

" Centennial Celebration at 94. 

" Churches of 63, 64, 65, 67. 

11 Company from, at first "General Training," 52. 

" early lawyers, merchants and physicians, 23. 

" " mechanics, 36. 

" " shoemakers, 36. 

" Fire Company, 95. 

" First blacksmith in 52. 

" " houses, the builders and their families, 43. 

" " mill in 24. 

" First Presbyterian Church of 64. 

11 first town meeting held at 75. 

" highways, 33. 

■ Hotels at 27. 
" Literary Society, 3, 10, 11, 89, 90, 9 1 . 
" Methodist Episcopal Church of 64. 
" Milling Company, 25. 

name of, derived from Isaac Scott, 1 8. 

" Postmasters and Post Office* at 71, 72. 

■ Schools in 54. 
" Station, Erie R. R., in Rush, 7 1 . 

■ Union School, 90. 
Second Baptist Church of Mumford, 1 08. 

» Florida War, 1835-1842, 80. 

" Street, Scottsville, 34, 63. 

Seminole Indians, War against 80. 

Seneca Indians, 76, 96. 

Settlers from 1 800 to 1 8 I 0, 21. 

" n 1810 to 1820, 22. 

" prior to 1 800, 1 8. 

Sheffer ferry, 3 1 . 

H flats, 34. 

■ landing, 29. 



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Sheffers, The - First Settlers in Wheatland, 16, 17, 73. 

Shirts' tan yard, 33. 

Shoemakers, Early 36. 

Sketch of the author, 9. 

"Slab City," 50. 

Slocum, George E., Sketch of 9. 

Society of Friends, 66. 

Southampton, Genesee County, N. Y., Town of 52, 74. 

Spain, War with, 1 898, 88. 

Spring Creek, 26, 50. 

" " Cornet Band, 95. 

State Line Railroad, 41, 71. 

Stone Church in Caledonia, 69. 

Stroebel & Allen's Cloth Mill, Mumford, 105. 

St. Colomba's R. C. Church at Caledonia, 105. 

St. Joseph's Hall, Scottsville, 67, 92. 

St. Patrick's R. C. Church, at Mumford, 105. 

Sullivan's Expedition, 1 3, 96. 

Table of Contents. 5. 
Teachers in Scottsville Schools, 54, 55, 56, 57. 

Third Street, Scottsville, 34. 

Threshing Machines, first in Wheatland, 37. 

Tonawanda Railroad, 79. 

Town Board of Wheatland, Bonds issued by 88. 

" Organization and Civil Changes, 73. 

" Superintendent of Common Schools, 59. 

United Presbyterian Church of Caledonia, 107. 

" " " " Mumford, 107. 
" United States," the first boat on Scottsville & Genesee 

River Canal, 38. 

Wagon makers, Early 36. 

War, Civil, 1861-1865, 81 to 87. 

n of 1812-1814, 77, 78, 79. 

" Patriot, 1837-1838, 79, 80. 

" Revolutionary 76. 

" with Spain, 1898, 88. 

Weavers' Mill, 33. 



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Western New York, 76. 

" " " Agricultural School, 60. 
" " " Colonial History of, Address by 

Senator McNaughton, 96. 
Wheatland, (or Wheatland Center) 19, 20, 23, 33, 49, 60, 72. 

" and Henrietta, Bridges between 32. 

" " Rush, Bridges between 32. 

" Centennial Anniversary, 1889, 10. 

» " Celebration, 1889, 92. 

" Company from, in War of 1812-1814, 77. 

" Early History of, Address by Geo. E. Slocum, 96. 

" Early manufactories, 35. 

" First church organization in 62. 

" First " General Training," 52. 

" First Presbyterian Church of 63, 64. 

" First school and school house in 54. 

" " Supervisor, 52. 

" " town-meeting in 75. 

" Map of at end of book. 

" Men from, in Civil War, 1861-1865, 81 to 87. 

" Post Offices in 71. 

" Power Company, 25. 

Revolutionary Soldiers buried in 76. 

" Schools, 54. 

" Town organization of 73, 74, 75. 

William Street, Mumford, 57. 

Windom Hall, Scottsville, 45, 46. 

Woolen Mills, The O-at-ka, at Mumford, 97. 



Yeo, Commodore Sir James, British fleet under, in War 

of 1812-1814, 73. 

York, Livingston County, N. Y., 71. 



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INDEX TO NAMES. 



NOTE. The names of men from Wheatland who served in 
the Civil War, 1861 - 1865, will be found alphabetically arranged 
at page 81. 



Abell, 


Merritt 56. 


Armstrong, Margaret 


7, 104. 


Ackley, William 27,45. 


" Thomas 


77. 


Albright, Fowler 24. 


" William 


74. 


ii 


Francis 18, 24, 51, 52. 


Arnold, Rev. J. B. 


66. 


Allan, 


Chloe 14. 


Ashby, Whitman G. 


23, 100. 


ii 


Ebenezer 14, 15, 18, 


Atwood, Mr. 


99. 




25, 43, 73, 101. 


Austin, Arvilla 


16. 


ii 


Mary 1 4. 


" Paul 79, 99, 


102, 110. 


Allen 


Caleb 16, 22, 36, 103. 


" Mrs. Paul 


12. 


it 


Elizabeth M. 97. 


" Rogers 


80. 


n 


E. S. 30. 


Ayers, Mr. 


27. 


n 


Ethan 98. 






n 


Harry 98. 


Babcock, Jonathan 22, 65, 78. 


ii 


Kate Elizabeth 98. 


Baker, Rev. Asa 55, 


102, 103. 


n 


Leonard Lewis 98. 


" Rev. Chauncey S. 65. 


ii 


Oliver, 1st, 97. 


" Rev. Seymour 


A. 65. 


ii 


Oliver, 2d, 41,92, 


Ballentine, M. 


102. 




95,97,98, 106, 107. 


Balzac, Mr. 


26. 


ii 


Oliver, 3d, 7, 97, 98. 


Barbour, Rev. J. B. 


106. 


ii 


Oliver, and Son, 26, 97. 


Barker, John A. 


80. 


ii 


Sarah 56, 103. 


Barnes, Marion 


57. 


Anderson, Donald 21, 62, 69. 


Barry, Benjamin R. 


30. 


ii 


Duncan 69. 


Barry, Ellwanger & 


60. 


n 


John 21,69. 


Bartlett, Rev. Dr. 


65. 


Andersons of Beulah, 69. 


Bassett, Nathan 


78. 


Andrus and Garbutt, 100. 


Baxter, M. O. 


27. 


Andrus, Lucius C. 23, 100. 


Beach, Jesse 


18, 19. 


Anstice, Rev. Henry 67. 


Beckwith, Capt. F. X 


12, 


Armstrong, Bela 78. 


36, 79, 80 


, 99, 101. 




» Calvin 22. 


» Mrs. F. X. 


12. 




■ Elon 24. 


" Elsie 


57. 




■ John 92, 107. 


" James F. 


39, 79. 



24 



Beecher, Asa 




101. 


Bronson, Rev. Edwin 


64. 


" Amos 




99. 


Brown, Chester 


107. 


" Harry 




36. 




ii 


Mrs. C. H. 


93. 


Bell, Rev. Thomas E. 




65. 




ii 


C. T. 


93. 


Bennett, Asher 




59. 




ii 


Mrs. C. T. 


93. 


" Frederick 




22. 




n 


Major D. D. S. 


23, 


" Otto 7 1 


, 72 


, 93. 






39, 41, 58, 59 


67, 


" Stephen 




92. 






71, 75,98, 103. 


Berry, Theodore 


27 


, 45. 




ii 


Mrs. D. D. S. 


93. 


Bigford, Amanda 




16. 




ii 


D. D. T. 


27. 


" Millard 




107. 




ii 


Prof. Frank H. 


56, 


Billington, Rev. Linus 


W. 










92, 93. 




44 


, 64. 




ii 


Henry 


104. 


Bills, Sherman 




35. 




n 


James 


27. 


Bingham, Ephraim 




100. 




ii 


John 101, 104. 


" William 




76. 




n 


John T. 


110. 


Bissell, Benjamin B. 


27 


, 72. 




it 


Le Grand 


93. 


Blackburn, Lowry 




101. 




it 


Mr. ( first shoe 




Blackmer, Ephraim 


75 


, 77. 






maker ) 


36. 


" Jirah 62 


, 75 


, 78. 




it 


Robert 


23. 


" Joseph 




21. 




it 


Roscoe C. E. 


93. 


" Newton 




92. 




ii 


Selden S. 67, 


75, 93. 


Blair, James 




104. 




it 


Rev. Solomon 


22, 


Blaker, Joseph 




33. 






62, 


63, 76. 


Blues, of Beulah 




70. 




ii 


Thomas 


92. 


Boardman, Miss E. S. 




57. 




n 


Mrs. Thomas 


93. 


Botsford, John 


36, 


101. 




n 


Theron 


58, 78. 


Bowerman, Benjamin 




101. 




n 


Volney P. 


75, 92. 


" Joseph 




101. 




ii 


Mrs. Volney P. 


93. 


" Luther 




34. 




ii 


William 


101. 


Bowers, Isaac 




105. 


B. 


jck, 


Rev. E. M. 


65. 


Boyd, Grace 




57. 




ii 


Jasper 


79. 


Brewster, Ezra 




78. 




ii 


Old Mr. 


101. 


Bristol, Dr. Augustus 


Ti 


> 




ti 


Wm. D. 


12, 30. 


23, 27, 


43, 


100. 


B, 


jckley, Rev. J. J. 


68. 


Mrs. Augustus 




12. 




" 


William 


72. 


Rev. Edward 




64. 


B, 


add 


Robert 


77. 


George T. 




100. 


Bi 


jdlong, Isaac 


87, 92. 


" Ives 




43. 




" 


Mrs. Isaac 


20, 52. 


" Paulina 




43. 




" 


Mrs. Ralph 


93. 


Brodies, of Beulah, 




70. 




" 


Schuyler 


93. 



25 



Budlong, Mrs. Schuyler 93. 


Cate, George 




87. 


Burdick, Alevia 56. 


Chamberlain, Hinds, 


18, 


Burns, Felix 20. 


19, 33 


, 73 


, 74. 


Burrell, Mrs. Thomas 93. 


" Lydia 




19. 


Buttolph, Ann 56, 103. 


Chapin, Clarinda 




56. 


" Rev. Milton 44, 64. 


" Henry 




93. 


Byam, Dr. Lucius W. 23. 


" Henry W. 




87. 




" Horace 




100. 


Cady, P. W. 77. 


" Judge 




16. 


» Rufus 21,47. 


Chapman, Jessamine 




57. 


Calkins, Caleb 75, 78. 


1 Rev. Jeded 


ah 


62. 


Campbell, Daniel P. 93. 


" Lucy 




14. 


" Mrs. Frances A. 98. 


Chase, Lillian C. 




57. 


» James A. 92. 


" Rev. L. D. 




65. 


» Peter 20. 


Cheeseman, Rev. Lewis 


64. 


Campbells of Beulah, 70. 


Christie, Alexander 


92 


,97. 


Carpenter, Benjamin B. 27, 


" John 




21. 


71, 101. 


Christies of Beulah, 




70. 


" Charles 101. 


Christy, Benjamin 




104. 


» Ezra 45, 78, 101. 


Chumasero, Judge Joh 


nC 




" Judge Ira 23, 




23, 


103. 


• 25, 32, 40, 44, 


Church, John D. 




57. 


71,99, 100, 


■ Sanford E. 




58. 


101, 102. 


■ Rev. S. C. 




66. 


» Powell 21,25, 


Clapp, E. P. 




109. 


27, 38, 40, 45, 


Clark, Jerusha 


56, 


106. 


46, 51, 54, 58, 


■ Peter 




80. 


65, 75, 100, 101. 


■ Sarah A. 




5 7. 


» Powell, Jr. 101. 


Cleary, Mr. 




105. 


Carry, Rev. William F. 63. 


Cliff, Rev. F. W. 




106. 


Carson, Joseph 87. 


Cobb, Nathaniel 




78. 


» William 101. 


Coe, Rev. George W. 




65. 


Carter, Judge William 56. 


Cole, Elder 




108. 


Cartter, Judge David K. 45. 


Coller, Thomas 




99. 


Carter, Phederus 23, 103. 


Collins, Edward 36, 


46, 


100. 


Cartwright, Orrin 36, 101. 


Colt, John 


63 


, 64. 


Carver, William 36. 


Comfort, Herbert T. 




56. 


Case, Hull 77. 


" Mr. 




56. 


Casey, Ruth B. 57. 


■ Rev. Orrin F 




65. 


Catana, Lanklan 55, 57, 


Comstock, Abbey 




57. 


58, 102. 


" Otis 




23. 



26 



Cone, Andrew 2 1 . 

n Andrew G. 62, 78. 

" Ezra T. 78. 

Conners, John 101. 

Cook, Rev. Chauncey 63. 

" William E. 56. 

Cooley, Rev. W. P. 107. 

Coon, A man named 100. 

Copeland, Rev. John 65, 99. 
" Rev. John A. 65. 

» Rev. R. W. 66. 

Cornell, John 101. 

Corey, Dora E. 57. 

" James B. 57. 

Cox, Elisha 55. 

" Frank 66. 

■ Isaac 21, 25, 38, 101, 

109. 

■ James 21, 27, 80, 109. 

" Joseph 21, 23, 25, 30, 



65, 75, 


101, 


109. 


" Keturah 




109. 


1 Mary 




109. 


" Samuel 2 1 


, 52, 


109. 


" Susanah 




109. 


■ William 




78. 


Craig, Dr. John R. 




23. 


Croft, John 




72. 


" Marion E. 




57 


Crowder, S. A. 




56 


Culver, Rev. S. W. 




106 


Cumber, Zachariah 




100 


" Mrs. Zachariah 






12, 


100 


Cushman, Abner 




79 


Cutler, Minerva 




56 


Dailey, Anna 




57 


Darling, William 




78 


Darrow, Minnie 




57 


Davies, Rev. Arthur 




67 



1 00, 



Davis, Clifford 

■ Ethan 

" Solomon 
Dean, Mrs. 1 

De Graffe, Mr. 
Dickinson, Daniel S. 

" William 

Dietz, John I 

Dillman, Albert F. 

" John C. 

Dixon, Anna 1 

Doane, Moses 
Dobson, Benjamin 
Donnelly, Belle 

" William 

Donohue, Rev. 1 

Doolittle, Rev. Henry R. 
Dorr, Eleanor M. 57, 89,90, 

" Mrs. Ellen 

" Jane A. 

" John 23, 39, 1 

" S. Hobart 
Doty, Timothy 
Douglass, Cyrus 



18, 19, 
33, 51. 

Joseph 
Dow, Elizabeth 
Drake, John N. 
Drury, L. M. 

Dugan, Christopher 14, 18, 
73, 
Durham, Rev. James 
Dutton, Julia 



09. 

87. 
01. 
00. 
32. 
58. 
36. 
01. 
88. 
88. 
03. 
36. 
28. 
93. 
92. 
06. 
64. 
93. 
89. 
89. 
03. 
67. 
77. 

74. 
62. 
47. 
56. 
33. 

74. 
65. 
57. 



Eastman, Joseph A. 23, 

59,99, 103. 

Eaton, Mr. 99. 

" Rev. Thomas W. 65. 

Eddy, Rev. Charles 66. 

Edmunds, Jefferson 27. 

" Mrs. Lydia 47. 



127 



Edson, Dr. Freeman 12, 


Frome, 


Anthony 87. 


22, 23, 38, 44, 45, 


Frothini 


*ham, Thomas 23. 


58, 63, 71, 75, 100. 


Fuller, j 


udge 59. 


" Rev. Hanford A., 


Furman 


, Rev. E. S. 65. 


D. D., 44, 95. 








Eells. B. G. 56. 


G, 


illintine, Jacob S. 39. 


Eisler, Rev. G. J. 68, 106. 


Gc 


ilusha 


, Elon L. 45. 


Eldridge, Rev. Daniel 63. 




ii 


Sears 36, 103. 


Ensign, George 22, 21 ', 36, 


G. 


arbutt 


Ann 48. 


38, 79, 100, 101. 




it 


Cassius 47. 


" Mrs. George 12. 




n 


Elizabeth, daugh- 


Evans, Captain Evan 80. 






ter of William, 47. 


Evarts or Everts, Rev. 




n 


Elizabeth, daugh- 


William W. 63, 106. 






ter of Zachariah, 

47, 48, 54. 


Farquerson, John 36. 




n 


Elmer H. 23,47, 


Farwell, David 21, 33. 






100, 102. 


» Elisha 19, 21, 74. 




ii 


James 47, 48. 


Faulkner, John 107. 




ii 


Jane (Mrs. W. H. 


11 John G. 87, 93. 






Harmon. ) 47. 


" Capt. Thomas 




ii 


John 21, 47, 51, 


22, 58, 70. 






52, 74, 75, 77. 


Ferguson, Rev. J. Dudley 67. 




ii 


John W. 24, 48, 92. 


" John 101. 




n 


Lucretia ( Mrs. 


Filor, Osborn 22, 23, 44, 






Jas. A. Robinson.) 47. 


46, 100. 




n 


Lydia ( Mrs. 


Finch, John 21, 35, 36, 51,52. 






Edmunds, ) 47. 


" Seeley 22. 




ii 


Margaret 47. 


Finney, Mrs. Asahel C. 44. 




ii 


Nicholas 47. 


Fish, Josiah 73. 




ii 


Peter 26, 48, 104, 


Fitzgerald, Lizzie 93. 






106. 

Phebe, daughter 


Fletcher, Thomas E. 78. 




ii 


Flinn, Thomas 87. 






of Zachariah, 47. 


Fort, Lydia A. 9. 








Franklin, Charles J. 93. 




ii 


Phoebe, daughter 


Fraser, James 2 1 . 






of Philip, 48. 








» Mary M. 18,89.90,93. 




ii 


Phoebe, daughter 


» William 22. 






of William, 47. 


Frawley, John 45. 




ii 


Philip 16, 21, 23, 


Freeman, Rev. A. S. 106, 107. 






24, 26, 40, 47, 


" James 72. 






48, 63, 78, 104. 



28 



Garbutt, Philip, son of 

Philip, 48. 

" Hon. Philip, son 
of William, 47, 

48, 51, 75, 92, 93. 
Robert R. 47, 48, 92. 
Mrs. Robert R. 93. 
Sheppard 48. 

Volney 47. 

William 21,47, 

48, 58, 75, 78. 

Mrs. William 12. 

William D. 47, 48, 92. 

William F. 47, 107. 

William H. 60. 

Zachariah 47, 48, 54. 

Mrs. Zachariah 47. 

Zachariah, son of 

William, 47, 57. 
Gardiner, L. H. 105. 

Garlock, Franklyn R. 56, 59. 



Gates, Harriet 
Gibson, Rev. G. W. 
Gilbraith & Hammond, 



57. 
66. 



26, 



104. 
105. 

78. 

56. 

93. 

25. 

57. 

56. 



Gillespie, Rev. 
Gilman, Henry 
Gleason, Sheppard 
Godley, L. M. 

" L. M. & Co. 

Goheen, Sara A. 
Goldsmith, Charles 
Gommenginger, Rev. Father 

106. 

Goodhue, George 2 1 , 74, 

101, 102. 

" George, Jr. 102. 

" JohnM. 78, 102. 

" Mrs. JohnM. 12. 

Goodrich, Lewis 58, 100, 101. 

" Mrs. Lewis 44. 



Goodrich, Martin 
Gould, Rev. Francis 

" Nelson 

" William 
Granger, Eli 
Grant, Abram B. T. 

" A. S, 

■ Daniel 
" Isaac 

Gray, William 
Green, Rufus 
Greene, Bertha 
Grey, Andrew 

■ Clara 

■ D. B. 

Griswold, Rev. Horace 
Grunendike, John 
Guthrie, Andrew 
■ Dr. 

Harvey 
Luman 



36, 



36. 

67. 
101. 

77. 

73. 

78. 
107. 

78. 

78. 

77. 

34. 

57. 

78. 

5 7. 

93. 

63. 

65. 

93. 

23. 

78. 

36. 



Hadley, Mrs. G. A. 93. 

Hahn, George 36, 101. 

Hall, Charles 39. 

» Clark 22, 23, 24, 27, 

40, 63, 72, 75. 

11 Henry L. 12. 

" Homer L. S. 67, 93. 

Hallock, Rev. G. B. F. 64. 

Halsted, Mary J. 56, 103. 

" R. H. 39. 

" Thomas 38, 40, 100. 

» Mrs. Thomas 19, 102. 

Hammond, Alvira 99. 

" Daniel P. 36, 

46, 79, 100. 
» John 36, 79. 

" Mark 79. 

Haney, Rev. W. H. 107. 



129 



Hanford, Abraham 22, 23, 


Henderson, Clara 




57. 




25, 35, 38 


40, 


Hess, Nancy 




16. 




43, 44, 46 


63, 


Hetzler, Daniel 




78. 




100, 101. 


" Frederick 18 


, 20 


, 33. 


ii 


Joseph P. 


45. 


George 




78. 


n 


Mary 


44. 


George F. 




78. 


n 


Nancy 


45. 


" Nicholas 1 8 


, 20 


, 33. 


n 


William Haynes 


Hibbard, Rufus 




76. 




22, 23, 38, 


45, 100. 


Hicks, Elias 




66. 


ii 


Wm. Haynes, Jr. 


Higby, Hezekiah 




78. 




23 


, 25,45. 


" Philander 




78. 


Hanna 


h, Alexander 


63. 


Hilliard, Mary 




16. 


Hansey, Jennie 


57. 


Hogan, Agnes 




57. 


Harmon, Rev. Austin 


63. 


Holly, Myron 




51. 


ii 


Elisha 


58, 75. 


Holmes, Rev. M. W. 




106. 


n 


Eugene E. 


93, 107. 


" N. S. 




25. 


ii 


Mrs. Eugene 


E. 7. 


Hood, Rev. Hiram H. 




65. 


ii 


Ira 


104. 


Hooper, Mrs. Francis 




102. 


n 


Mrs. Jane 


47. 


Horton, Henry 




46. 


H 


John 


78. 


Hotchkiss, ( Shoemaker. ) 


36. 


it 


Lydia 


62. 


Howe, Albert 


36, 


100. 


ii 


General Rawson 


" Dr. William J. 


23 






22, 60, 62, 


75, 107, 


92 


93 


94. 


n 


Rawson, Jr., 


78. 


" Mrs. William J. 




93. 


n 


Sylvester 


75. 


Howell, Joshua 




78. 


ii 


Wm. H. 55 


, 57,92. 


Howie, Rev. J. L. 




107. 


Harris, 


Jonathan 


77. 


Hudnut, Isaiah 




56. 


Harroun, John 


65, 100. 


Huff, Reuben 




56. 


Hart, Rev. Jacob 


63, 99. 


11 William 




80. 


Harvey, John E. 


72, 107. 


Hughes, Bessie A. 




57. 


Havens, Renselear N. 


72. 


Hulbertson, Reuben 




78. 


Haynes, Rev. Selden 


64. 


Hunter, Rev. Eli S. 




64. 


Heath, 


Eldrige 


19. 


" Joel 




65. 


ii 


Elisha 


102. 


Hurlburt, Helen 




56. 


n 


Reuben 18, 19, 33, 


" Reuben 




78. 




54, 74, 


76, 102. 


Hutchins, Capt. Hezek 


iah 


76. 


n 


Reuben, Jr. 


102. 


Hutchinson, H. 


26, 


104. 


ii 


William 


102. 


" Joslyn 




59. 


Hebbard, Judge 


70. 


Hyde, Harvey W. 


36, 


101. 


Hebbards of Beulah, 


70. 


" Mrs. Harvey 


19, 


102. 


Hemin 


gway, Rev. James 65. 


" Milton A. 


23 


,93. 



30 



Innes, John W. 


27. 


Lacy, Captain Levi 22, 3S 


, 


Irish, Benjamin 


21, 62. 




75 


77. 


Irvin, Samuel 


107. 


" William 


21 


62. 


Irvine, Walter 


87. 


" Dr. William G. 


22 








39 


, 59 


, 71. 


Jackson, Timothy 


78. 


Lamb, Thubal 




78. 


Jacquith. Asa 


78. 


Lambert, Rev. L. A. 




68. 


" Reuben 


78. 


Lampson, George 




80. 


Jemison, Mary 


14. 


Langdon, Rev. J. B. 




65. 


Jennings, George V. 


56. 


Lard, Ezekiel 




80. 


Johnson, Amasa 


78. 


" Mace 




80. 


" Chauncy 


107. 


Lawson, John W. 




21. 


" John 


78, 80. 


Lawton, Rev. D. B. 




65. 


» William 


78. 


Laybourn, Christopher 




Jones, James 


78. 


21,51 


, 52 


, 74. 


" Rev. John 


64. 


Laverty, Rev. D. H. 




64. 


" Reuben D. 


58. 


Lee, Professor Daniel 




60. 


" Thomas 


100. 


Lester, Caroline 




57. 


Joslin, John 


76. 


Lewis, David B. 

" Isaac I. 22, 63, 


64, 


71. 


Kelly, James H. 67, 


92, 93. 


79, 100, 


101. 


" Mrs. James H. 


93. 


" James 




78. 


Kelsa, John 


78. 


" James B. 




67. 


Kemp, William 


101. 


Losee, W. H. 




18. 


Ketchum, Allen J. 


59. 


Loughlin, Rev. M. J. 




68. 


Keys Brothers, 


46. 


Lowell, Rev. J. V. 




65. 


Keys, Chester 


79. 


Lowry, Thomas 


22 


75. 


Kiley, Kate 


56. 


Luce, Sidney A. 




56. 


Killam, Ambrose 


78. 


Luckey, Rev. Samuel 




66. 


" Charles 


78. 








" Harvey 


100. 


Madden, Rev. M. T. 


68, 


106. 


King, Gideon 


73. 


Mahar, Rev. S. A. 


68, 


106. 


" Rev. Mr. 


106. 


Mallocks of Beulah 




70. 


" Simon 


73. 


Mallory, Rev Mr. 




106. 


Kingsbury, Addison 


107. 


Mann, Alexander 23, 


57, 


103. 


" Frank 


60. 


■ Donald 




22. 


Kirk, John 


101. 


■ Jane E. 




93. 


Kittenger, Rev. G. W. 


65. 


Markham, Rev. George 


66. 






Marsh, H. B. 




103. 


Lacey. Allen T. 


58. 


Martin, Henry 




62. 


Lacy, Ephraim 


77. 


" Mary 




62. 



13 



Martin, Rev. R. M. 




106. 


Mc 


Naughton, Senator 




Marvin, Luke 




101. 






Donald 23, 




Mason, Judith 




44. 






41, 75,92, 




Matthews, John 




101. 






93, 96, 


107. 


Maynard, Harriet E. 




72. 




1! 


Duncan 28 


72. 


McAmmond, Dr. J. F. 




23. 




II 


Henry D. 


75. 


Mc Arthur, Lizzie 




93. 




II 


Mrs. Jane 


89. 


Mc Coll, Rev. Dugald D. 


64. 




II 


John 18, 20, 


Mc Combs, Andrew 




87. 






35, 37 


74. 


McConkey, Samuel 




36. 




II 


John H. 


96. 


McDermid, John 




21. 




II 


Kate 


89. 


Mc Dermit, Hugh 




74. 




II 


Libbie 


57. 


Mc Donald, Alexander 




54. 




II 


Dr. Peter 23, 


" Rev. E. J. 




68. 






58, 


100. 


" Isaac 


36, 


101. 


Mc 


Nicho 


Is, M. M. 


93. 


* s. w. 




93. 


Mc 


Phail, 


Alfred 


56. 


" Mrs. S. W 




93. 


Mc 


Pherson, Alexander F. 




Mc Glen, Rev. James 




105. 






23, 93, 


107. 


Mc Glew, Rev. James 




68. 




ii 


Donald 


69. 


Mc Intosh, Thomas 


39, 


102. 




ii 


Duncan 


62. 


Mclntyre, J. J. 




93. 




ii 


John 21 


, 69. 


McKay and Mumford 




26. 




ii 


Peter 


75. 


" John 20, 


50, 


104. 




ii 


Rev. S. J., 




" Captain Robe 


±2 


, 






D. D 


. 70. 


26, 50, 


79, 


104. 


Mc 


Phersons of Beulah, 


70. 


Mc Kelvey, Mary J. 




56. 


Mc 


Queen, Dugald 


107. 


Mc Kenzie, Donald 2 1 


, 26 


, 62. 




ii 


Duncan 


72. 


" Oliver 




96. 




n 


Ellis 27, 


101. 


Mc Killop, Rev. Mr. 




106. 




ii 


James 26, 72, 


104. 


McKirahan, Rev. J. A 




107. 


Mc 


Ve-an, 


Mrs. Abbey 


89. 


Mc Laren, Rev. Donald 


69. 




ii 


Alexander 


75. 


" James 




20. 




ii 


Archibald, son 




1 Malcom 


19 


, 20. 






of John 52, 


101. 


Mc Lean, Mr. 

Mc Martins of Beulah, 

Mc Nair, Emily 




27. 
70. 
57. 




ii 
ii 
ii 


Brothers, 
Cameron 
Carroll 


37. 
33. 
88. 


Mc Nail, Almira 




16. 




ii 


David, son of 




Mc Nary, Rev. D. L. 




107. 






John 52, 58, 


101. 


Mc Naughton, Charles 




72. 




ii 


Esquire Donald 




■ D. B. 


92 


,93. 






20, 22, 24, 


101. 



132 



Mc Vean, Duncan, son 


of 


Mills, Fanny 


57. 




John 22, 58, 101. 


Mitchel, John 


100. 


it 


Mrs. Duncan 


12, 


Moore, Emeline 


57. 






100. 


Mordoff, Beulah E. 


57. 


ii 


Miss H. F. 


93. 


" M. C. 


25, 67. 


it 


Hugh, son of 




■ Mrs. M. C. 


93. 




Donald, 12, 


79, 


Morgan, Joseph 2C 


, 73. 




80, 101. 




74, 76. 


ii 


James, son o: 




" Joseph, Jr, 


20. 




Donald, 99, 101. 


Morehouse, John 


101. 


ii 


John 22, 52, 101. 


Morris, John J. 


56. 


ii 


John, of Beu 


[ah, 69. 


Morse, Elder David 


106. 


ii 


Major John, ; 


son 


Moseley, Clara 


57. 




of John, 


52, 


Moses, Schuyler 


101. 




58, 75, 101. 


Mulligan, Rev. Dr. Jori 


n 


ii 


Mrs. (Major) 






59, 63. 




John 


12. 


Mumford, Elisha H. S 


26, 


ii 


John, son of 




40, 50, 


58, 104. 




Donald, 


101. 


" Thomas 2 


, 26, 


it 


Mrs. John C. 


93. 




50, 104. 


n 


John C, Jr. 


64. 


Munger, Rev. D. B. 


106. 


ii 


Julian J. 


52,93. 


Munn, Dr. Edwin G. 


23, 


ii 


Malcolm 25, 


27, 28. 


27, 


65, 100. 


ii 


Mrs. Wm. R. 


36. 


Munson, D. A. 


93. 


McVeans of Beulah, 


70. 


Murdock, John 


27, 72. 


Meagh 


er, Rev. M. M. 


68. 


Murrays of Beulah, 


70. 


Meahan, Andrew 


93. 






Menzie 


. Herbert 


70. 


Neafie, John C. 


93. 


it 


Dr. R. J. 


70. 


Nelson, Rev. J. A. 


107. 


Menzies of Beulah, 


70. 


Nettleton, David K. 


36, 101. 


Merrill 


L. O. 


93. 


■ Mrs. David K. 


Merriman, Israel 


76. 




19, 102. 


Merritt 


C. C. 


27. 


Nichols, Mrs. C. D. 


93. 


Middleton, Rev. John 


63. 


" David 92, 


93, 107. 


Millard 


, Rev. Samuel 


65. 


■ Rev. David 


66. 


Miller, 


E. T. 23, 


27, 45. 


" and Graham 


104. 


ii 


H. H. 


103. 


Niles, John E. 


56. 


n 


Mrs. H. H. 


93. 


Nixon, Anna 


56. 


n 


Rev. L. J. 


68. 


Nobles, Calvin 


101. 


ii 


Maud 


57. 


North, Daniel 


78. 


ii 


Myron 


87, 93. 


" Isaac 


101. 



33 



North, Isaiah 




36. 


Quincy, Joseph 


101. 


O'Brien, Anna J. 




57. 


Rafferty, Patrick 36, 


67, 101. 


O'Connor, Rev. Ed 


ivard 


68. 


ii 


Mrs. Thomas 


93. 


O'Donohue, Rev. J. 


V. 67 


, 68. 


ii 


William 


92, 93. 


Olds, Carmi C. 


55, 


103. 


Raulet, Fifield 


100. 


Oliver, Miss 


102, 


103. 


ii 


Mrs. 


100. 


Olmstead, James 




22. 


Raymond, Henry J. 


57, 58. 


" John R. 




97. 


Rea, Alexander 


33. 


Olmsted, Jeremiah 




73. 


Read 


and Goodrich, 


100. 


O'Neil, Rev. Father 




94. 


Read, 


George W. 


36. 


Ott, Captain John 


12 


, 38. 


ii 


Henry W. 


36, 100. 








ii 


Jehial 


36. 


Page and Son, 


26, 


104. 


Reed, 


Colonel James 


76. 


» William C. 24, 26, 




ii 


Leora 


5 7. 




57,92 


93. 


it 


Mary 


57. 


Pangburn, J. T. 




56. 


ii 


Shelby 


12, 110. 


Parker, Rev. T. F. 




66. 


ii 


William 21, 48 


54, 


Parmlee, Rev. Alvin 


63. 




74, 


75, 101. 


Parsons, Rev. Dwie 


ht L. 


64. 


ii 


William N. 


55. 


Paul, Alexander 




43. 


Reid, 


Rev. W. J. 


107. 


Peabody, Stephen 


33, 35 


( 


Remington and Allen, 


26, 97. 




74 


, 78. 


i 


Judge Harvey F. 


" Stephen 


Guy 


78. 






97. 


" William 




100. 


i 


Jerusha H 


97. 


Pease, Tom 




110. 


i 


Mary 


97. 


Penfield, A. B. 


101, 


102. 


i 


' William 


97, 98. 


Pentland, Wm. P. 




78. 


i 


William, J 


r., 97. 


Phelps and Havens, 


23. 


Robb 


Captain Frankli 


n 80. 


'* Jedediah 




106. 


Robb 


ins, Rev. Mr. 


106. 


Phitts, Mr. 




56. 


Robertson, William 


107. 


Pierce, Caleb 




80. 


Robinson, Abram H. 


27, 99. 


" Jason 




78. 


n 


Archibald 


80. 


Pierson, Simon 




32. 


n 


Rev. C. H. 


107. 


Pope, George H. 




92. 


ii 


Family, 


99. 


" Mrs. George 


H. 


93. 


ii 


Rev. G. S. 


66. 


Potter, Mrs., daughter of 




ii 


James A. 


47. 


Reuben Heath, 


102. 


ii 


Mrs. Lucretia 47. 


Price, Ezra 




72. 


ii 


Rebecca 


99. 


" Ezra A. 




72. 


n 


Samuel 


99. 


Purcell, William 




72. 


ii 


Rev. W. J. 


107. 



134 



Rogers, Daniel E. 12. 


Scott, J 


acob 


18. 


» D. E. 93. 


Seaman, Catherine 




» Rev. George D. 1 06. 




Hutchins 


98. 


" Harris 21,27. 


Searing 


, Rev. Richard C. 


67. 


" William 80. 


Seeds, 


Hugh 


78. 


Rossiter, Rev. T. L. 68. 


Severance, Mrs. H. R. 


93, 


Row, Albert 100, 103. 


ii 


Samuel O. 36, 


00. 


Roy, Rev. James, D. D. 67. 


Seymour, Anson 


99. 


" Mrs. James 90. 


Shadbolt, Darius 


21 


Rumsey, D. C. 56. 


ii 


Darwin 


87. 




ii 


Frances A. 


57. 


Sage, Harley Hugh 78. 


ii 


Samuel 


101. 


" Mrs. Henry 93. 


it 


Thomas 78, 


101. 


■ John 21,27. 


Shadoc 


.k, Joseph 


78. 


" Martin 78. 


Sharp, 


Mr. 


36. 


" Simeon 79. 


Sheffer 


, Amanda 


16. 


Sally, native wife of Indian 


n 


Daniel 


16. 


Allan 14. 


ii 


George 12, 16 


25. 


Salsbury, or Saulsbury, 


n 


Mrs. Hattie M. 


57. 


Stephen 26, 104. 


it 


Hester 


16. 


Salter, James 80. 


n 


Jacob 1 6 


33. 


Salyerds, David C. 23. 


n 


Jacob, son of Peter 


» Isaac W. 24, 75, 




2d., 


16. 


92,93. 


it 


Levi 


16. 


Sample, John 16. 


ii 


Lorence 


16. 


Sanborn, Rev. John W. 65. 


ii 


Mariah 


16. 


Savage, Alvah 22. 


n 


Nancy 1 6 


, 48. 


" Alvin 25, 37,99, 100. 
" Betsy 99. 
" Chester 75. 


ii 


Peter, Senior 


16. 


ii 


Peter (2d.) 16 




» James 36,80, 100. 
» Jane 99. 




24, 33, 35,43,48, 




51, 73, 74, 75, 


101. 


Scanlan, Bridget 72. 


ii 


Peter ( 2d. ) Por- 




Schoonover, Elizabeth 1 6. 




trait of, facini 


1 16. 


« Jacob 16, 18, 74. 


n 


Peter (3d.) 


16. 


Scofield, Samuel 23, 25, 


ii 


Roswell 


16. 


75, 101. 


Sheffers, The 


16. 


■ Seward 67, 93. 


Sheldon, Paraclyte 


56. 


Scott, Isaac 18,27,43,51, 


Sheric 


an, Michael 


101. 


73, 74,99, 100. 


Shirts, 


William 


21. 


■ Mrs. Isaac 19,63,99. 


ii 


William A. 92 


,93. 



135 



Sibley 


, Annis W. (Mrs. 


Smith, Thomas 12, 


54, 


102. 




T. R.) 89, 93. 


" Ward 




77. 


ii 


T. Romeyn 


89, 


■ Warren 




64. 






92, 93. 


Snyder, Lovina W. 




57. 


Sill, John ( or Jonathan ) P. 


Soper, Captain Amos 




80. 






23, 64. 


Southworth, Mrs., daughter 


Simmons, O. P. 


103. 


of Reuben Heath. 


102. 


Simons, Samuel D. 


57, 58. 


Sparrow, Rev. O. B. 




65. 


Simpson, W. C. 


56. 


Spencer, John T. 27, 


36, 


100. 


Skinner, Ebenezer 


22, 33, 63. 


Springstead, Price 




80. 


ii 


Newell 


105, 107. 


Stanhope, Samuel 




76. 


Slaughter, Rev. W. 


B. 65. 


Steadman, William 




78. 


Slocum, Arthur G. 


56. 


Stearns, Mr. 




94. 


ii 


Avis L. 


5 7. 


Stewart, Daniel 




87. 


ii 


Earll H. 9, 


72, 92,93. 


" Daniel A. 




93. 


ii 


George E. 


9, 39, 


1 Mrs. Daniel A 


i. 


93. 






89, 92, 96. 


" Prof. D. L. 




89. 


it 


George E., 


Portrait 


" George 1 04, 


108. 




of, facing 


title page. 


" Mrs. Malcolm 




93. 


ii 


G. Fort 


9, 59, 67. 


" William 




80. 


ii 


General H 


enry W. 9. 


Stimson, Rev. H. K. 




63. 


ii 


Le Roy M. 


9, 27, 44. 


Stokoe, A. R. 




93. 


ii 


Lydia F. ( Mrs. 


" Milton 




93. 




Geo. E. ) 


89. 


Thomas 2 1 


, 66 


, 75. 


ii 


Matthew B 


9. 


Stone, Rev. Eli 




63. 


ii 


Mors O. 


9. 


Storrs, John 




101. 


Smith, 


Rev. C. B. 


105. 


Story, Rev. Father 




106. 


ii 


Comfort 


76. 


" Rev. Richard J. 




68. 


ii 


Daniel 


87. 


Stottle, Joseph 




45. 


ii 


Ebenezer 


103. 


Street, Samuel 




18. 


ii 


Edwin A. 


55. 


Stringham, J. 




27. 


ii 


Elmer J. 


56. 


Strobel, Wm. D., Jr. 




93. 


ii 


E. Peshine 


23, 103. 


Strong, Philip B. 




56. 


ii 


Frank 


102. 


Sullivan, Peter 




80. 


ii 


George H. 


22. 


Swan, C. H. 




104. 


ii 


Rev. Griffin 


65. 


Sweet, Abram 




78. 


n 


Helen 


56. 








ii 


Hiram 


24, 52. 


Tabor, Mae 




57. 


ii 


John 


21, 54. 


Tarbox, Henry 22, 36, 


65 




ii 


Robert 


54, 102. 


80, 100, 


101. 


ii 


Rev. S. C. 


66. 


" Sarah 




56. 



36 



Taylor, Rev. Joseph 




106. 


Warren, Newman 




21. 


" Nathaniel 


51 


53. 


11 Stephen 




63. 


Tennents of Beulah 




70. 


Watkins, John W. 




28. 


Terry, Rev. George W 




65. 


Watson, A. M. 




55. 


Thorns, Joseph 1 00, 


101. 


Webb, Jonathan 




78. 


Thompson, Alexander 


21 


69. 


Weed, Rev. Thomas A. 64, 89. 


Thorn, Mary 


56, 


103. 


Weeks, Annette 




57. 


Timon, Bishop 




67. 


" William 




36. 


Toms, John 




76. 


" Mrs. W. W. 




93. 


Tower, Dr. 




23. 


Weiley, or Wiley, Rev. John 


Townsend, Dr. Morris 


W. 






65 


,99. 


56, 


59, 


103. 


Weingand, Joseph 


94, 


101. 


Trayhern, Eli M. 




93. 


Welch, John 




22. 


11 Enos 




100. 


" Samuel 


36 


, 79. 


Tucker, Joseph 


21 


, 62. 


" William 


12 


, 36. 


" Polly 




62. 


Wells, James 79 


99, 


101. 


Turner, Mr. 




105. 


1 J- T. 




94. 


" O. (Quoted) 




69. 


n Mrs. Moses 




12. 


Tuttle, Rev. W. S. 




65. 


" Seth 
West, Erastus 




93. 
80. 


Ulter, William 




105. 


Wheeler, Alpha 




78. 


Usher, Aaron 




78. 


■ Harlan P 
" Mabel 




72. 
57. 


Valance family of Beulah 

" Mrs. H. 
Valleau, George 
Van Antwerp, Daniel 6l 
VanVoorhis, Menzo 


, 70. 

93. 
101. 
, 78. 

23. 


White, Libbirs 
Whitney, David 
1 George 
" George L. 
■ Gilbert T. 


28, 
79, 


104. 
101. 
101. 
101. 
101. 


Vosburg, Henry 
11 Rev. H. 




80. 
65. 


■ John 
Wilber, Rev. A. D. 




80. 
65. 


Walkers of Beulah, 




70. 


■ John 36 


, 79, 


101. 


Wallace, Rev. John H 




65. 


" Theodore 




79. 


" Lizzie 




57. 


Wilcox, R. W. 


106, 


107. 


Walsh, Rev. Michael 




68. 


Wilder, Captain Cale 


b 


80. 


" Robert 




72. 


" Maud 




57. 


Ward, J. F. 




93. 


Willard, Gertrude 




57. 


" Thomas 




28. 


Williams, Rev. Benijah 


65. 


Wardner, Rev. C. A. 




106. 


" Rev. Gibbon 


63. 


Warren, Benjamin 


12, 78. 


■ William A. 




103. 


" Benjamin ( 2d. ) 


87. 


Williamson, Charles 


50, 




" Lizzie 




93. 


54 


, 69, 


104. 



37 






Willing, Rev. W. C. 


65. 


Wiliey.Mr. 


56. 


" Mrs. 


56. 


Willy, Rev. Aristarchus 


63. 


Winchester, Agnes E. 


57. 


Winne, Indian Trader at 




Buffalo 


19. 


Wisner, Rev. William C. 


44. 


Wood, George 


75. 


" James 21,51 


52. 


" Colonel Joseph 


80. 



Wood, Samuel 58, 80. 

H Capt. William W. 29. 
Woodard, Chester D. 72. 

" Nathan A. 56, 

59, 103. 

Woodgate, Joseph 101. 

1 Joseph (2d.) 87. 

" Mrs. Martha 43. 



Zimmerman, Theresa 



56. 



38 



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Page 38. Halstead should be Halsted. 

■ 39. R. N. Halsted should be R. H. Halsted. 
11 56. Franklyn should be Franklin. 

■ 115. After " Hanford's Landing, " 28, 73 should be 29, 73. 

■ 115. After " Hotels, " 26 should be 2 7. 

11 118. After " Our Country's Defenders, "77 should be 76. 

" 1 19. After "Railroads: Western New York and Pennsyl- 
vania, " 41 should be 42. 

11 119. Sacketts Wall Board Company should be Sackett 
Wall Board Company. 

" 1 20. After " Scottsville, Centennial Celebration at " 94 
should be 92 to 96. 

" 123. Austin, Rogers; should be Austin, Roger. 

" 125. Carter, Phederus; should be Cartter, Phederus. 

" 126. Corey should be Covey. 

H 127. Filor should be Filer. 

H 129. Heath, Eldrige should be Heath, Eldridge. 







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